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.

Sundry Guides to Good Cheer

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

Sundry Guides to Good Cheer

A "Sir, Respect Your Dinner; idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in…

Sundry Guides to Good Cheer: Oracle

To Dr. William Kitchener the merit of reforming English cookery as it existed during the early part of the past century is due to no…

Sundry Guides to Good Cheer: Original

On this subject the "Original" again proves itself a valuable sign-board, and its doctrine as to the conduct of the dinner forms a tenet…

Sundry Guides to Good Cheer: Thackeray

This does not sound as palatable as a sole au gratin or en matelote Normande, or even whitebait-that "little means of obtaining a great…

Sundry Guides to Good Cheer (Erence to the taste)

erence to the taste of the majority, in distinction to one's own preference or the predilections of the few. With the stiff and formal…

Sundry Guides to Good Cheer: I've

By the gods of good fare, who can question to-day How pleasant it is, etc. "After oysters, Sauterne; then sherry; champagne; Ere one bottle…

Sundry Guides to Good Cheer: Davis

To English guides, so far as the metropolis is concerned, should be added Lieutenant-Colonel Newnham Davis' recent volume-a veritable…

Sundry Guides to Good Cheer: Madame

He ought to dine and digest at the same time, and nothing aids this dual function like good conversation. Perhaps the 1 "L'Hygiene des…

Sundry Guides to Good Cheer: Bignon

Théodore de Banville has likewise depicted many a picturesque restaurant scene in his airy "Odes Funambulesques." The lyrists, too, have…

Sundry Guides to Good Cheer: Monsieur

A provincial dining there in April, on perceiving melons on the card, ordered one. "What!" he exclaimed, after examining his bill, 'thirty…

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