Excerpt from A Mirror for Dyspeptics: From the Diary of a Landlord The Bookseller says he is ants a Preface, and that the book cannot be a book without one. With this message before us, and in order to comply with the wishes of our worthy publisher, we sat down and asked ourself what is to be said? Were these essays prepared for the purpose of instructing the public, or were they written with a View to their amusement, or for the purpose of showing our ability to cater for the mind as well as the body?/ The answer that ...
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Excerpt from A Mirror for Dyspeptics: From the Diary of a Landlord The Bookseller says he is ants a Preface, and that the book cannot be a book without one. With this message before us, and in order to comply with the wishes of our worthy publisher, we sat down and asked ourself what is to be said? Were these essays prepared for the purpose of instructing the public, or were they written with a View to their amusement, or for the purpose of showing our ability to cater for the mind as well as the body?/ The answer that presented itself, with a kind of involun tary emphasis, was no. Yet knowing the sympathy be tween these auxiliaries to our comfort and our existence, and after considering the devouring propensity of the one, and the ignorance in relation to the aliment of the other, we did flatter ourself in being able to concoct something that might be palatable to the epicures, if not to the lite rary gourmands of the day. The tales (not ox tails or pigs' that have recently excluded the scientific ali ment from our tables, we knew, like our dinners, are swal lowed without mastication, and in the hepe of directing the public mind to the necessity of reform, we compiled the following pages, and, in the general deluge, hoped they might be swallowed with the rest. How they will be received - what good may be effected by them, or whether they may be considered worth the perusal, is for the reader to determine. Our experience has instructed us that every man has his taste, and Careme has told us that he who loves acid will not take that between sweetand sour. Those who love bitter, will not relish those things that are sweet. Dishes lightly seasoned will not please those who love them highly flavored and well sea sened, but moderately seasoned dishes are the compositions of science, and the taste and flavor are relished by the lovers of gastronomy. We therefore give this as our preface, and hepe the reader, if we have not been able to accomplish it, will treat the subject with the serious im portance it deserves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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