Host and guest : a book about dinners, wines, and desserts / by A.V. Kirwan.

  • Andrew Valentine Kirwan
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Host and guest : a book about dinners, wines, and desserts / by A.V. Kirwan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    some new culinary fashion. The work presented to the reader is therefore, in certain parts, historical, anecdotical, gossipping, and somewhat discursive; but the main object of the author has been to induce well informed and sensible people in England to adopt all that is good in the excellent cookery, and agreeable and social life of our neighbours of France, without in any wise abandoning the best of our British customs, or the simplicity of our substantial food. It is not for the author to say in how far he has succeeded. That he leaves to the judgment, and they are a great majority, of those who criticise in a fair and candid spirit. All, however, who affect to criticise are not candid; but it may be said of a critic who deliberately misrepresents a work, that he ib unworthy of his vocation, and as heinously criminal as the man who in social or commercial life gives a false character of a servant, or a false warranty of goods or merchandise. 73, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, W. March 1, 1864.
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