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Kitchen Essays (Persephone Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Agnes Jekyll
Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 28711
Media: Paperback
Pages: 264
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1906462038
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9781906462031
ASIN: 1906462038
Publication Date: October 23, 2008
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well matched in essay and recipes January 18, 2002
simontarry@fsmail.net
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a book that can be picked up put down picked up and reread. There are two levels to this, an insight into the Kingdom at the turn of the century, into the food of the time and a fine book of recipes, some I have tried and enjoyed. Mrs Beeton with flash
Well worth a read and a try
Witty recipes December 1, 2001
Lynette Baines (Melbourne, Australia)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
"God made the first Christmas, and man has ever since been busy spoiling it. Year by year the propaganda of the shops grows increasingly active; and their suggestions for the keeping of that high feast...appear annually more elaborate and incongrous than ever before." Agnes Jekyll wrote this in 1922 but few of us would disagree with her today. Kitchen essays is a delightful collection of pieces written for the Times (the first recipes ever printed in the newspaper) around 1920. Jekyll's style has a period flavour which I found fascinating. Her topics include recipes "For the too thin" and "For the too fat", "Bachelors entertaining", "A little dinner before the play" and "A little supper after the play". It's obvious that a cook and kitchenmaids were never too far away, aspic and cream are the preferred ingrediants for every dish whether sweet or savoury, and dinners of six courses were only just beginning to disappear as the done thing. Jekyll was obviously a clever and considerate hostess, and her suggested menus for every occasion are interspersed with literary quotations and sensible advice. Her recipes are a little short on quantities and she is fond of instructing us to make a sauce "in the usual way", but the essays are a wonderful illustration of life in England for a certain class of people just after the First World War. This is a facsimile edition beautifully produced by Persephone with the usual gorgeous endpapers.
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