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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6 entries in this part of Kettner's Book of the Table.

Eggs

There is an old philosophic question-Which was produced first, the egg or the hen? Theologians might perhaps decide for the egg, on the…

Endive

as known at our tables, is of three kinds, one of which may be dismissed with a word. It is the wild endive or succory, called in France…

Epicure

The name of Epicurus is a standing proof of the irony and bitterness of life. A philosopher who magnified the pleasures of the mind, his…

Epigram

"I have been dining," said a French nobleman to one of those wealthy but often ignorant tax-farmers who used to be called financiers in…

Escalopes

English cooks are bad enough in their corruptions, but the French ones beat them hollow, and then the English ones, to show off their…

Essence

There is something of humbug in this. We have essence of ham, essence of truffles, essence of chicken, essence of game. These are…

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