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This Volume Is Devotedly
INSCRIBED. "Gasteria is the Tenth Muse; she presides over the enjoyments of Taste."
Abraham Hayward
INTRODUCTORY It is far from the purpose or desire of the author to add another to the innumerable volumes having practical cookery as their…
XVII Sweets to the Sweet
BIBLIOGRAPHY. • INDEX.
Chas, Edw
From the painting by Gabriel Metzu, 1664 Fantaisie culinaire : le poisson prévoyant By A. Thierry Frontispiece PAGE iv xi Le Cuisinier.
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3 From the stipple engraving in colours by Bartolozzi, after Cipriani Portrait du Gourmand 24 After Carle Vernet Le Livre de Taillevent 49…
Cookery Among the Ancients
9 pages
With Lucullus and Apicius
9 pages
The Renaissance of Cookery
22 pages
Old English Dishes
21 pages
Cobbes Prophecies, His Signes and Tokens, 1614
HE main attraction of the very early English cook-book, it must be confessed, is its rarity, to which may be added its quaint title-page…
L'Almanach Des Gourmands
13 pages
Second Service
Un pâté de foies gras. 4 Plats de Rôt.
A German Speisekarte
14 pages
The School of Savarin
9 pages
Charles Monselet
M OST noted of literary tributes to the table is that of Brillat-Savarin, who has discoursed on gastronomy with all the knowledge and…
From Carême to Dumas
13 pages
Par a. Beauvilliers
Ancien Officier de MONSIEUR, comte de Provence, attaché aux Extraordinaires des Maisons royales, et actuellement Restaurateur, rue de…
The Cook's Confrère
5 pages
American Vs. English Cookery
6 pages
Samuel Johnson
TRICTLY speaking, there exists as yet no gen- S eral high-class English or American cuisine, beyond the natural alimentary resources of…
At Table with the Clergy
15 pages
La Contenance De La Table
Facsimile of title-page, early part of sixteenth century "Enfant, tu ne dois charger Tant de la première viande Se plusieurs en as en…
Sundry Guides to Good Cheer
10 pages
Of Sauces
4 pages
The Spoils of the Cover
6 pages
Two Esculents Par Excellence
10 pages
Sallets and Salads
5 pages
Sweets to the Sweet
6 pages
Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea: Viewed Classically, Poeti
3 pages
Health's Improvement; or, Rules Comprising and Dis
4 pages
Historique Et Archeologique Sur L'Alimentation, Les
4 pages
Ments, Sauces Et Assaisonnements: Leur Histoire, Leur
Fos (Léon de). GASTRONOMANIA. Proverbes - Aphorismes- Préceptes et Anecdotes en Vers, précédés de Notes relatives à l'Histoire de la Table…
Dotes, Bons Mots, Plaisanteries, Maximes Et Réflexions
GASTRONOMIQUES. Précédé d'une Dissertation Historique sur la Science de la Gueule. Paris: Librairie Economique, 1809. (18mo) pp. 175.
Historique, Philosophique, Anecdotique Et Littéraire Des
6 pages
Traditions Culinaires Et L'Art De Man
9 pages