The cook's decameron : a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes / by Mrs. W.G. Waters.

  • Waters, W. G., Mrs.
Date:
1901
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Credit: The cook's decameron : a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes / by Mrs. W.G. Waters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    left at a day’s notice, in order to embrace Christianity and marry a lady’s-maid who had just come into a legacy of a thousand pounds under the will of her late mistress. Another correspondent, Mrs. Gradinger, wrote that her German cook had announced that the dignity of womanhood was, in her opinion, slighted by the obligation to prepare food for others in exchange for mere pecuniary compensation. Only on con- dition of the grant of perfect social equality would she consent to stay, and Mrs. Gradinger, though she held advanced opinions, was hardly advanced far enough to accept this suggestion. Last of all, Mr. Sebastian van der Roet was desolate to announce that his cook, a Japanese, whose dishes were, in his employer’s estimation, absolute inspirations, had decamped and taken with him everything of value he could lay hold of; and more than desolate, that he was forced to postpone the pleasure of welcoming the Mar- chesa di Sant’ Andrea at his table. When she had finished reading this last note, the Marchesa gathered the whole mass of her morning’s correspondence together, and uttering a few Italian words which need not be translated, rolled it into a ball and hurled the same to the farthest corner of the room. “How is it,” she ejaculated, “that these
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