Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon].

  • John Timbs
Date:
1838
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Credit: Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tlie old English habit of taking ivine together affords one of the most pleasing modes of recognition when distant, and one of the prettiest occasions for coquetry when near. There is a well-known lady-killer who esteems his mode of hiking wine to be, of all his manifold attractions, the chief; and, to do him justice, the tact with which he chooses his time, the air with which he gives the invitation, the empresse- rnent he contrives to throw into it, the studied carelessness with which he keeps his eye on the fair one’s every move- ment till she is prepared, and the seeming timidity of his how, when he is all the while looking full into her eyes— all these little graces are inimitable.—Quarterly Review. The difficulty of getting a glass of wine in the regular way, is beginning to exercise the ingenuity of mankind. Mr. Theodore Hook was once observed, during dinner at Hatfield House, nodding like a Chinese mandarin in a tea- shop. On being asked the reason, he replied, “ Why, Lady Salisbury, when no one else asks me to take champagne, I take sherry with the epergne, and bow to the flowers.”— Quarterly Review. The expense of a dinner at a restaurant in Paris, is pretty nearly the same as at an English coffee-house, and greater than at an English club. At the respectable houses, a gentleman may dine for six or seven francs, or augment the expenses to the prices of the Albion or the Clarendon ; but, a large party may be furnished at the best restaurant in Paris, the Rocher de Cancale, for two Napoleons, or 35s. a head, with such a dinner as would be charged in London at five guineas a head.—Metropolitan. When the allied monarchs arrived in Paris, in 1814, they were compelled to contract with a restaurateur, (Very) for the supply of their table, at the moderate sum of 3,000 francs (251.) a day, exclusive of wine. The following maxims for a dinner are translated from Le Physiologic de Gout ■ How is a meal to be regulated in order to unite all. things requisite to the highest pleasures of the table ? I proceed to answer this question. 1. Let not the number of the company exceed twelve, that the conversation may be constantly general.
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