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.

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Old English Dishes (TH In the olde time When Beefe)

TH "In the olde time, When Beefe, Bread & Beere, Was honest mens cheere, and welcome and spare not; And John and his Joane, Did live of their owne, full merily, though but all meanely."

Old English Dishes (TH In the olde time When Beefe) — from The Pleasures of the Table (1902)

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