The Pleasures of the Table

Gastronomy from ancient days to modern times — the feasts of Greece and Rome, the great chefs and their schools, the literature of the table, and Ellwanger's own views on the aesthetics of dinner-giving.

Cookery Among the Ancients

9 pages in this part of The Pleasures of the Table.

Cookery Among the Ancients (L'art qui contient toutes les)

"L'art qui contient toutes les élégances, toutes les courtoisies, sans lesquelles toutes les autres sont inutiles et perdus; l'art…

Cookery Among the Ancients (Be largely ascribed to lack)

be largely ascribed to lack of exercise and insufficient oxygenation?

Cookery Among the Ancients: Egyptians

Coffee, of very remote use in Abyssinia, was unknown to the early Greeks and Romans; they were, however, familiar with the cucumber…

Cookery Among the Ancients: Persian

Thousands of years before Henrion de Pensey pronounced his famous aphorism, a novel culinary preparation was regarded as of vaster…

Cookery Among the Ancients: Sicilian

Mithæcus, another famous Hellenic guide to epicurean delights, wrote a book entitled "The Sicilian Cook," which has been mentioned by…

Cookery Among the Ancients: Attic

The ten books of Athenæus give us a complete manual of olden Greek cookery, and Herodotus, Plutarch, and other authors, if not as…

Cookery Among the Ancients: Athenæus

Of ancient recipes, Apicius and Athenæus present a vast array. Soyer also, in his aspiring, cumbersome, and learned "Pantropheon," affords…

Cookery Among the Ancients: Homer

The reader who would penetrate further into the mysteries of Grecian cookery may be referred with advantage to Homer's repast of Ulysses at…

Cookery Among the Ancients: Greek

Athenæus, in particular, presents the Greek and Oriental kitchens in all their aspects, and, with his marvellous erudition, proves himself…

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