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The Art of Entertaining
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CONTENTS.
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OUR AMERICAN RESOURCES AND FOREIGN ALLIES 13
THE HOSTESS 22
BREAKFAST 35
THE LUNCH 49
AFTERNOON TEA 59
THE INTELLECTUAL COMPONENTS OF A DINNER 68
CONSCIENTIOUS DINERS 79
VARIOUS MODES OF GASTRONOMICAL GRATIFICATION 94
SOUPS 105
FISH 113
SALAD 124
DESSERTS 134
GERMAN EATING AND DRINKING 143
THE INFLUENCE OF GOOD CHEER ON AUTHORS
AND GENIUSES 152
BONBONS 162
FAMOUS MENUS AND RECEIPTS 176
COOKERIES AND WINES OF SOUTHERN EUROPE 185
SOME ODDITIES IN THE ART OF ENTERTAINING 197
THE SERVANT QUESTION 206
SOMETHING ABOUT COOKS 221
FURNISHING A COUNTRY HOUSE 233
ENTERTAINING IN A COUNTRY HOUSE 241
A PICNIC 253
PASTIMES OF LADIES 260
PRIVATE THEATRICALS 271
HUNTING AND SHOOTING 280
GOLF 288
GAMES 299
ARCHERY 313
THE SEASON--BALLS AND RECEPTIONS 321
WEDDINGS 331
HOW ROYALTY ENTERTAINS 340
ENTERTAINING AT EASTER 353
HOW TO ENTERTAIN CHILDREN 361
CHRISTMAS AND CHILDREN 371
CERTAIN PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS 381
THE COMPARATIVE MERITS OF AMERICAN AND
FOREIGN MODES OF ENTERTAINING 389
THE ART OF ENTERTAINING.
OUR AMERICAN RESOURCES, AND FOREIGN ALLIES.
"Let observation, with extensive view,
Survey mankind from China to Peru."
The amount of game and fish which our great country and extent of
sea-coast give us, the variety of climate from Florida to Maine, from
San Francisco to Boston, which the remarkable net-work of our railway
communication allows us to enjoy,--all this makes the American market
in any great city almost fabulously profuse. Then our steamships bring
us fresh artichokes from Algiers in mid-winter, and figs from the
Mediterranean, while the remarkable climate of California gives us
four crops of delicate fruits a year.
There are those, however, who find the fruits of California less
finely flavoured than those of the Eastern States. The peaches of the
past are almost a lost flavour, even at the North. The peach of Europe
is a different and far inferior fruit. It lacks that essential flavour
which to the American palate tells of the best of fruits.
It may be well, for the purposes of gastronomical history, to narrate
the variety of the larder in the height of the season, of a certain
sea-side club-house, a few years ago:
"The season lasted one hundred and eighty days, during which time from
eighty thousand to ninety thousand game-birds, and eighteen thousand
pounds of fish were consumed, exclusive of domestic poultry, steaks
and chops. On busy days twenty-four kinds of fish, all fit for
epicures, embracing turbot, Spanish mackerel, sea trout; the various
kinds of bass, including that gamest of fish the black bass, bonito
from the Gulf of Mexico, the purple mullet, the weakfish, chicken
halibut, sole, plaice, the frog, the soft crab from the Chesapeake,
were served. Here, packed tier upon tier in glistening ice, were some
thirty kinds of birds in the very ecstasy of prime condition, and all
ready prepared for the cook. Let us enumerate 'this royal fellowship
of game.'
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OUR AMERICAN RESOURCES AND FOREIGN ALLIES 13
THE HOSTESS 22
BREAKFAST 35
THE LUNCH 49
AFTERNOON TEA 59
THE INTELLECTUAL COMPONENTS OF A DINNER 68
CONSCIENTIOUS DINERS 79
VARIOUS MODES OF GASTRONOMICAL GRATIFICATION 94
SOUPS 105
FISH 113
SALAD 124
DESSERTS 134
GERMAN EATING AND DRINKING 143
THE INFLUENCE OF GOOD CHEER ON AUTHORS
AND GENIUSES 152
BONBONS 162
FAMOUS MENUS AND RECEIPTS 176
COOKERIES AND WINES OF SOUTHERN EUROPE 185
SOME ODDITIES IN THE ART OF ENTERTAINING 197
THE SERVANT QUESTION 206
SOMETHING ABOUT COOKS 221
FURNISHING A COUNTRY HOUSE 233
ENTERTAINING IN A COUNTRY HOUSE 241
A PICNIC 253
PASTIMES OF LADIES 260
PRIVATE THEATRICALS 271
HUNTING AND SHOOTING 280
GOLF 288
GAMES 299
ARCHERY 313
THE SEASON--BALLS AND RECEPTIONS 321
WEDDINGS 331
HOW ROYALTY ENTERTAINS 340
ENTERTAINING AT EASTER 353
HOW TO ENTERTAIN CHILDREN 361
CHRISTMAS AND CHILDREN 371
CERTAIN PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS 381
THE COMPARATIVE MERITS OF AMERICAN AND
FOREIGN MODES OF ENTERTAINING 389
THE ART OF ENTERTAINING.
OUR AMERICAN RESOURCES, AND FOREIGN ALLIES.
"Let observation, with extensive view,
Survey mankind from China to Peru."
The amount of game and fish which our great country and extent of
sea-coast give us, the variety of climate from Florida to Maine, from
San Francisco to Boston, which the remarkable net-work of our railway
communication allows us to enjoy,--all this makes the American market
in any great city almost fabulously profuse. Then our steamships bring
us fresh artichokes from Algiers in mid-winter, and figs from the
Mediterranean, while the remarkable climate of California gives us
four crops of delicate fruits a year.
There are those, however, who find the fruits of California less
finely flavoured than those of the Eastern States. The peaches of the
past are almost a lost flavour, even at the North. The peach of Europe
is a different and far inferior fruit. It lacks that essential flavour
which to the American palate tells of the best of fruits.
It may be well, for the purposes of gastronomical history, to narrate
the variety of the larder in the height of the season, of a certain
sea-side club-house, a few years ago:
"The season lasted one hundred and eighty days, during which time from
eighty thousand to ninety thousand game-birds, and eighteen thousand
pounds of fish were consumed, exclusive of domestic poultry, steaks
and chops. On busy days twenty-four kinds of fish, all fit for
epicures, embracing turbot, Spanish mackerel, sea trout; the various
kinds of bass, including that gamest of fish the black bass, bonito
from the Gulf of Mexico, the purple mullet, the weakfish, chicken
halibut, sole, plaice, the frog, the soft crab from the Chesapeake,
were served. Here, packed tier upon tier in glistening ice, were some
thirty kinds of birds in the very ecstasy of prime condition, and all
ready prepared for the cook. Let us enumerate 'this royal fellowship
of game.'