The greedy book

“How admirable and beautiful are eating and drinking, and what a great invention the human digestive system is! How much better to be a man than an alligator! The alligator can...

Less fortunate was I in my experience with the eldest daughter of a celebrated painter. She was all for colour. “There is not enough colour in our drab London life,” she said; s...

Gently stir and blow the fire, Lay the mutton down to roast, Dress it quickly, I desire, In the dripping put a toast, That I hunger may remove-- Mutton is the meat I love.

A quaint old book on Salads is entitled “On the Use and Abuse of Salads in general and Salad Plants in Particular,” by Johann Friedrich Schütze, Doctor of Medicine, and Grand-Du...

It is a certain fact, although difficult to prove by statistics, that a large proportion of the drink consumed by the working-classes is directly due to the bad cooking which th...

These several gentlemen, combined into one, would not be all too learned in the niceties of gastronomy to be able to put together a modern dinner menu. Nowadays we want somethin...

However this may be, it can be taken for granted that royal banquets are much like other meals in so far as anticipation, appetite, realization, and digestion are concerned. The...

A former generation suffered from the Andrew Clark regime, and I can even remember a dinner menu divided into halves, one of which was headed “Clarkists,” and was confined to th...

“It’s a very remarkable circumstance, sir,” said Sam Weller, “that poverty and oysters always seem to go together; the poorer a place is the greater call there seems to be for o...

It is surely quite superfluous to enter upon any defence of Snails as an article of food. If you like them, well, you like them. If you do not, then you probably detest them. No...

Who thinks nowadays of the battle when he degustates _Poulet à la Marengo_? And yet nothing is more authentic than its inception on that memorable occasion. The battle occurred,...

Caviar frais. Huîtres (Natives). Œufs Grand-Duc. Bouchées Joinville. Truite saumonée au Chambertin. Sarcelles rôties. Salade Espérance. Aspic de homard en Bellevue. Asperges sau...

I. THE CHAFING DISH. II. PRELIMINARIES. III. SOUPS. IV. FISH. V. FLESH AND FOWL. VI. VEGETABLES AND SALADS. VII. EGGS AND SAVOURIES. VIII. SAUCES. IX. SWEETS AND ODDMENTS. X. AM...