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The Art of Entertaining

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The Art of Entertaining

M. E. W. Sherwood

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Soup can sink a dinner party, and Mrs. Sherwood devotes a chapter to preventing it. Her manual covers the hostess, breakfasts, lunches, afternoon tea, and the intellectual components of dinner, from guest lists to gastronomy. Gilded Age entertaining explained by its acknowledged authority. Hospitality treated as the fine art it is.

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40 chapters

  1. 1THE ART OF ENTERTAINING
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4OUR AMERICAN RESOURCES, AND FOREIGN ALLIES.
  5. 5THE HOSTESS.
  6. 6BREAKFAST.
  7. 7THE LUNCH.
  8. 8AFTERNOON TEA.
  9. 9THE INTELLECTUAL COMPONENTS OF DINNER.
  10. 10CONSCIENTIOUS DINERS.
  11. 11VARIOUS MODES OF GASTRONOMIC GRATIFICATION.
  12. 12OF SOUPS.
  13. 13FISH.
  14. 14THE SALAD.
  15. 15DESSERTS.
  16. 16GERMAN EATING AND DRINKING.
  17. 17THE INFLUENCE OF GOOD CHEER ON AUTHORS AND GENIUSES.
  18. 18BONBONS.

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