Kitchen Essays
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<DIV><p>"These essays are noble relics indeed, and Jekyll has the puff-pastry touch."—BookForum</p><p>“Three cheers to Persephone Books for publishing this witty, sharp writer, nostalgic but unsentimental, humorous but precise, erudite and always elegant.”—<I>Country Living</I></p><p>“Kitchen Essays is a rare thing, a cookbook that is as fun to read as its food is to eat.”—<I>Sunday Herald</I> (Glasgow)</p><p>“[An] exquisitely reprinted period piece.”—<I>BBC Good Food</I> magazine</p><p>First published in <I>The Times</I> (London) during the 1920s, <I>Kitchen Essays</I> explains the proper way to make Lobster Newburg while offering fascinating insight into the social history of England.</p><p>Agnes Jekyll felt that cooking should fit the occasion and temperament and states that “a large crayfish or lobster rearing itself menacingly on its tail seems quite at home on a sideboard of a Brighton hotel-de-luxe, but will intimidate a shy guest at a small dinner-party.” And that “a hardy sportsman should not be fed in the same way as a depressed financier.”</p><p><B>Agnes Jekyll</B> (1860–1937) was the daughter of William Graham, Liberal MP for Glasgow and patron of the Pre-Raphaelites. A celebrated hostess and entertainer, her first dinner party included Robert Browning, John Ruskin, and Edward Burne-Jones. She lived in Surrey, England.</p></DIV>
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