Kettner's Book of the Table

Every food on the Victorian table gets its history, its etymology and a strong opinion — the wittiest cookery book of 1877, written in secret by a Times leader-writer and named for London's most fashionable restaurant.

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Bentley

Richard, one of the greatest scholars of modern times, and certainly the most learned man of his day. He made this incisive observation to one of his pupils," Sir, if you drink ale you will think ale," which Brillat-Savarin has refined and generalised into the aphorism : "Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es." BETSY PRIG helped herself too often from the teapot which contained not tea but rum. It was more than Mrs. Gamp could bear. She stopped the hand of Mrs. Prig with her own and said with great feeling,-"No, Betsy. Drink fair, whatever you do!" And this supreme rule has therefore in history been associated indissolubly with the name of the forgetful Betsy.

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