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Title: A Little Dinner Before the Play
Author: Agnes Jekyll
Genre: Historical cookbooks
Thingummies: 3.5
Synopsis: A collection of newspaper articles about cooking and entertaining, written in the 1920s.
Thoughts: Continuing in my series of historical cooking books, this is the most approachable but perhaps therefore the least interesting of the lot. Not that it's not still interesting, it just lacks some of the exoticism of books from farther in the past.
Still, this gives a lovely insight into high society dining and entertainment from the beginning of the last century. It would pair very well with Emily Post's original etiquette guide (which is itself absolutely fascinating reading).
Amusingly enough, I think comparing this with the medieval cookbook results in about the same ratio as "that sounds delicious" and "really, people ate that?" I truly do not understand the impulse to suspend everything in aspic. 1920s cooking, I hold you responsible for the Gallery of Regrettable Food and the mass of unfortunate Jell-O salads in the 1950s.
Author: Agnes Jekyll
Genre: Historical cookbooks
Thingummies: 3.5
Synopsis: A collection of newspaper articles about cooking and entertaining, written in the 1920s.
Thoughts: Continuing in my series of historical cooking books, this is the most approachable but perhaps therefore the least interesting of the lot. Not that it's not still interesting, it just lacks some of the exoticism of books from farther in the past.
Still, this gives a lovely insight into high society dining and entertainment from the beginning of the last century. It would pair very well with Emily Post's original etiquette guide (which is itself absolutely fascinating reading).
Amusingly enough, I think comparing this with the medieval cookbook results in about the same ratio as "that sounds delicious" and "really, people ate that?" I truly do not understand the impulse to suspend everything in aspic. 1920s cooking, I hold you responsible for the Gallery of Regrettable Food and the mass of unfortunate Jell-O salads in the 1950s.
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