Table traits,
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共 40 段- If water be not, according to Pindar and the legend over the
- “Ælia Lælia” Chudleigh, as Walpole calls the famous lady who
- Some years ago, an old member of this ancient sisterhood was
- Tea is little nutritious; it is often injurious from being d
- William Urwin’s Coffee-house, known as “Will’s,” from its ow
- Before Procope, the Armenian, Pascal, sold coffee at the Fai
- The musicians would appear to have lived as pleasantly as th
- The cooks of the young King Louis XVI. remarked, with mingle
- Beauvilliers was famous for his splendid wines and heavy bil
- THE MATERIALS FOR DINING.
- Of the more nutritive species of fish, turbot, cod, whiting,
- Some gastronomic enthusiasts, unable to wait for their favou
- The household of Job was of a hospitable cast. “His sons wen
- Rice, as an article of food, has something remarkable in it.
- There is something very characteristic of the “ancient natio
- As the Athenian rulers kept their figs, so did the Persian K
- Once, and once only, a faction of parasites contrived to get
- ’Neath the waves of Mincoy grows a magical tree,
- By the reign of Elizabeth, napkins had been added to table-c
- Our vain lady-wits, however, too often lacked refinement. “I
- Early ages, and the oldest poets, confessed, that wine was t
- Probably, no country on the earth presented such scenes, ari
- “Port, like all other wines, ripens in a shorter, or longer,
- The ancient people who loved the juice of the grape, kept in
- And this may naturally lead us to look in, for a moment, on
- I have spoken more of the achievements of Egyptian cookery,
- Curiously enough, St. Monica, the mother of St. Augustin, ra
- But, oh, wonder! those ribalds their scoffs had scarce utter
- And then came vespers and more amateur music,--probably more
- Heliogabalus lay on couches stuffed with hare’s down, or par
- The emperor was pleased, because when an emergency had prese
- “Oh! oh!” exclaimed the king, “here is bachelor’s fare with
- Stephen had more to do with fighting than feasting, and with
- When he was lying hid in Spring Coppice, the goodwife Yates
- A second gentleman offered to the representative of the defu
- But there are worse things than these which necessity can re
- There was more wit in a curé of Basse Bretagne, who was the
- Charles I. added the wine to an increase of pay asked for by
- At the _soupers_ of Paris, however, there were few men who w
- The supper has been called the conversational meal, but to m