The Royal Parisian pastrycook and confectioner: from the original of M.A. Carême / Edited by John Porter. With illustrative plates.

  • Carême, M. A. (Marie Antonin), 1784-1833.
Date:
1834
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Royal Parisian pastrycook and confectioner: from the original of M.A. Carême / Edited by John Porter. With illustrative plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    11/426
    ADVERTISEMENT. This work, if I may be allowed the presumption of saying so, is absolutely new, and will throw additional lustre on our national cookery so long and so justly esteemed by foreigners. It was always valued and en- couraged by the French nobility, the delicacy of whose taste rendered them so truly capable of appreciating fine-flavoured and excellent dishes; and to this cause, especially, may be attributed the well-known fact that our modern cookery has become the model of whatever is really beautiful in the culinary art. It has for ever eclipsed ail that the sensual nations of antiquity were able to devise towards promoting the luxury of the table; and the art of French cookery, as practised in the nineteenth century, will be the pattern for future ages. CAREME. Paris.