{"product_id":"2940016094045","title":"The Art of Entertaining","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                      PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     OUR AMERICAN RESOURCES AND FOREIGN ALLIES          13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     THE HOSTESS                                        22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BREAKFAST                                          35\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     THE LUNCH                                          49\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     AFTERNOON TEA                                      59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     THE INTELLECTUAL COMPONENTS OF A DINNER            68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     CONSCIENTIOUS DINERS                               79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VARIOUS MODES OF GASTRONOMICAL GRATIFICATION       94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     SOUPS                                             105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     FISH                                              113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     SALAD                                             124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     DESSERTS                                          134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     GERMAN EATING AND DRINKING                        143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     THE INFLUENCE OF GOOD CHEER ON AUTHORS\u003cbr\u003e       AND GENIUSES                                    152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BONBONS                                           162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     FAMOUS MENUS AND RECEIPTS                         176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     COOKERIES AND WINES OF SOUTHERN EUROPE            185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     SOME ODDITIES IN THE ART OF ENTERTAINING          197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     THE SERVANT QUESTION                              206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     SOMETHING ABOUT COOKS                             221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     FURNISHING A COUNTRY HOUSE                        233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     ENTERTAINING IN A COUNTRY HOUSE                   241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     A PICNIC                                          253\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     PASTIMES OF LADIES                                260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     PRIVATE THEATRICALS                               271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     HUNTING AND SHOOTING                              280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     GOLF                                              288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     GAMES                                             299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     ARCHERY                                           313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     THE SEASON--BALLS AND RECEPTIONS                  321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     WEDDINGS                                          331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     HOW ROYALTY ENTERTAINS                            340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     ENTERTAINING AT EASTER                            353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     HOW TO ENTERTAIN CHILDREN                         361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     CHRISTMAS AND CHILDREN                            371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     CERTAIN PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS                     381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     THE COMPARATIVE MERITS OF AMERICAN AND\u003cbr\u003e       FOREIGN MODES OF ENTERTAINING                   389\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE ART OF ENTERTAINING.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOUR AMERICAN RESOURCES, AND FOREIGN ALLIES.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     \"Let observation, with extensive view,\u003cbr\u003e     Survey mankind from China to Peru.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe amount of game and fish which our great country and extent of\u003cbr\u003esea-coast give us, the variety of climate from Florida to Maine, from\u003cbr\u003eSan Francisco to Boston, which the remarkable net-work of our railway\u003cbr\u003ecommunication allows us to enjoy,--all this makes the American market\u003cbr\u003ein any great city almost fabulously profuse. Then our steamships bring\u003cbr\u003eus fresh artichokes from Algiers in mid-winter, and figs from the\u003cbr\u003eMediterranean, while the remarkable climate of California gives us\u003cbr\u003efour crops of delicate fruits a year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are those, however, who find the fruits of California less\u003cbr\u003efinely flavoured than those of the Eastern States. The peaches of the\u003cbr\u003epast are almost a lost flavour, even at the North. The peach of Europe\u003cbr\u003eis a different and far inferior fruit. It lacks that essential flavour\u003cbr\u003ewhich to the American palate tells of the best of fruits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt may be well, for the purposes of gastronomical history, to narrate\u003cbr\u003ethe variety of the larder in the height of the season, of a certain\u003cbr\u003esea-side club-house, a few years ago:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The season lasted one hundred and eighty days, during which time from\u003cbr\u003eeighty thousand to ninety thousand game-birds, and eighteen thousand\u003cbr\u003epounds of fish were consumed, exclusive of domestic poultry, steaks\u003cbr\u003eand chops. On busy days twenty-four kinds of fish, all fit for\u003cbr\u003eepicures, embracing turbot, Spanish mackerel, sea trout; the various\u003cbr\u003ekinds of bass, including that gamest of fish the black bass, bonito\u003cbr\u003efrom the Gulf of Mexico, the purple mullet, the weakfish, chicken\u003cbr\u003ehalibut, sole, plaice, the frog, the soft crab from the Chesapeake,\u003cbr\u003ewere served. Here, packed tier upon tier in glistening ice, were some\u003cbr\u003ethirty kinds of birds in the very ecstasy of prime condition, and all\u003cbr\u003eready prepared for the cook. Let us enumerate 'this royal fellowship\u003cbr\u003eof game.'","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164008104176,"sku":"2940016094045","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016094045","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}