Author: Janet McKenzie HillPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330433829
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 779
Book Description
Excerpt from Practical Cooking and Serving a Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food "Certainly," replied the orade, "study the art of pleasing by dress and manner as long as you are of an age to interest us; and, above all, let all women, pretty and plain, married and single, study the art of cookery. If you are an artist in the kitchen, you will always be esteemed. Only be careful, in studying both arts, never to forget the great truth that dinner precedes blandishments, and not blandishments dinner." Elizabeth and Her German Garden I regard the discovery of a dish a far more interesting event than the discovery of a star, for we have already stars enough, but we can never have too many dishes; and I shall not regard the sciences as sufficiently honored or adequately represented among us until I see a cook in the first class of the [French] Institute. HotmiON de Penesey (o learned French judge). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
