George H. Ellwanger

INTRODUCTORY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

COOKERY AMONG THE ANCIENTS

WITH LUCULLUS AND APICIUS

THE RENAISSANCE OF COOKERY

OLD ENGLISH DISHES

L'ALMANACH DES GOURMANDS [19]

A GERMAN SPEISEKARTE

THE SCHOOL OF SAVARIN

FROM CAReME TO DUMAS

THE COOK'S CONFRERE

AMERICAN VS. ENGLISH COOKERY

AT TABLE WITH THE CLERGY

SUNDRY GUIDES TO GOOD CHEER

OF SAUCES

THE SPOILS OF THE COVER

TWO ESCULENTS PAR EXCELLENCE

SALLETS AND SALADS

SWEETS TO THE SWEET

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

THE PLEASURES OF THE TABLE

BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR

"The Garden's Story, or Pleasures and Trials of an Amateur Gardener." Illustrated by Louis Rhead.

"The Story of My House." With a frontispiece by Sidney L. Smith.

"In Gold and Silver." Illustrated by A. B. Wenzell and W. Hamilton Gibson.

"The Rose." By H. B. Ellwanger. Revised edition, with an Introduction by George H. Ellwanger.

"Idyllists of the Country Side." With a title-page by George Wharton Edwards.

"Love's Demesne: A Garland of Contemporary Love Poems Gathered from Many Sources."

"Meditations on Gout, with a Consideration of its Cure through the Use of Wine." With a frontispiece and title-page by George Wharton Edwards.

"A SA TOUTE-PUISSANCE!"

From the painting by Gabriel Metzu, 1664

AN ACCOUNT OF GASTRONOMY
FROM ANCIENT DAYS TO
PRESENT TIMES.

WITH A HISTORY OF ITS LITERATURE,
SCHOOLS, AND MOST DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS;
TOGETHER WITH SOME SPECIAL RECIPES,
AND VIEWS CONCERNING
THE AESTHETICS OF DINNERS
AND DINNER-GIVING.

BY

GEORGE H. ELLWANGER, M.A.

NEW YORK

DOUBLEDAY PAGE AND CO.

1902

Copyright, 1902, by
Doubleday, Page & Co.

"Gasteria is the Tenth Muse; she presides over the enjoyments of Taste."

Brillat-Savarin.

"The History of Gastronomy is that of manners, if not of morals; and the learned are aware that its literature is both instructive and amusing; for it is replete with curious traits of character and comparative views of society at different periods, as well as with striking anecdotes of remarkable men and women whose destinies have been strangely influenced by their epicurean tastes and habits."

Abraham Hayward.