The book of American interiors, prepared by Charles Wyllys Elliott from existing houses; with preliminary essays and letterpress descriptions; illustrated in heliotype (1876)
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · Boston, J.R. Osgood and Co. · leaf 41
prepared their delicious foods.The chief cook, wearing his bonnet graced with a sprig of somearomatic flavor, glorifies his office in the midst of his assistants. Of one thing we may be sure, that meats cooked in the freeair before the blazing wood were better than the baked meats wenoAv eat and… … give from the same work the print of the plain bourgeois or busi-ness man taking his solitary meal ; most likely a simple one, butwe may hope a well-cooked one. Indeed, when we read that inthe sixteenth century the corporation of pastry-cooks was in Francea very important body, with coats of arms…
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