The handbook of dining, based chiefly upon the Physiologie du goût of Brillat-SavarinLongman & Company, 1864 - 170 pages |
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Page 143 - ... The pleasure of eating is common to us with animals; it merely supposes hunger, and that which is necessary to satisfy it. The pleasure of the table is peculiar to the human species ; it supposes antecedent attention to the preparation of the repast, to the choice of place, and the assembling of the guests. The pleasure of eating requires, if not hunger, at least appetite ; the pleasure of the table is most frequently independent of both. " Some poets complained that the neck, by reason of its...
Page 10 - Greeks ! for not as foes ye came; To me more dear than all that bear the name." With that, the chiefs beneath his roof he led, And plac'd in seats with purple carpets spread. Then thus — " Patroclus, crown a larger bowl, Mix purer wine, and open every soul. Of all the warriors yonder host can send, Thy friend most honours these, and these thy friend.
Page 10 - He strows a bed of glowing embers wide, Above the coals the smoking fragments turns And sprinkles sacred salt from lifted urns; With bread the glittering canisters they load, Which round the board Menoetius' son bestow'd; Himself, opposed to Ulysses full in sight, Each portion parts, and orders every rite.
Page 10 - Ulysses crown'd with wine The foaming bowl, and instant thus began, His speech addressing to the godlike man : " Health to Achilles ! happy are thy guests ! Not those more honour'd...
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Page 135 - ... dishes of acknowledged flavour, of such undoubted excellence, that their bare appearance ought to excite in a human being, properly organised, all the faculties of taste ; so that all those in whom, in such cases, we perceive neither the flush of desire nor the radiance of ecstacy, may be justly noted as unworthy of the honours of the sitting and the pleasures attached to it' A distinguished gastronomer, refining on this invention, proposes eprouvettes by negation.
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Page 10 - He said; Patroclus o'er the blazing fire Heaps in a brazen vase three chines entire: The brazen vase Automedon sustains. Which flesh of porket, sheep, and goat contains: Achilles at the genial feast presides, The parts transfixes, and with skill divides. Meanwhile Patroclus sweats the fire to raise; The tent is brighten'd with the rising blaze : Then, when the languid flames at length subside, He...