The Cook's Decameron

A novel with two hundred Italian recipes inside it: ten friends dine together for ten days, argue about food and cooks and country, and each day's talk ends in the day's menu.

The Third Day

3 pages in this part of The Cook's Decameron.

The Third Day

"I OBSERVE, dear Marchesa," said Mrs. Fothergill at breakfast on Thursday morning, "that we still follow the English fashion in our…

The Third Day: English

Fothergill, "But why should we have anything but English breakfast dishes in England? The defects of English cookery are manifest enough…

The Third Day: Gradinger

Here Mrs. Gradinger paused to finish her coffee, which was getting cold, and before she could resume, Sir John had taken up the parole. "I…

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