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Title: Culture and Cooking
Art in the Kitchen

Author: Catherine Owen

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Language: English

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CULTURE AND COOKING;

OR,

ART IN THE KITCHEN.

BY

CATHERINE OWEN

"Le Createur, en obligeant l'homme a manger pour vivre, l'y invite
par l'appetit et l'en recompense par le plaisir."

--BRILLAT SAVARIN.

CASSELL, PETTER, GALPIN & CO.,
NEW YORK, LONDON, AND PARIS.
1881

COPYRIGHT,
1881,
BY O. M. DUNHAM.

PRESS OF J. J. LITTLE & CO.,
NOS. 10 TO 20 ASTOR PLACE, NEW YORK.

PREFACE.

THIS is not a cookery book. It makes no attempt to replace a good one;
it is rather an effort to fill up the gap between you and your household
oracle, whether she be one of those exasperating old friends who
maddened our mother with their vagueness, or the newer and better lights
of our own generation, the latest and best of all being a lady as well
known for her novels as for her works on domestic economy--one more
proof, if proof were needed, of the truth I endeavor to set forth--if
somewhat tediously forgive me--in this little book: that cooking and
cultivation are by no means antagonistic. Who does not remember with
affectionate admiration Charlotte Bronte taking the eyes out of the
potatoes stealthily, for fear of hur