The Delights of Delicate Eating
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
- Publish date: 09/01/2000
Pennell began her career as a food writer, she confesses, "in spite of the fact that I couldn't boil an egg and my only qualifications were a healthy appetite and an honest love of a good dinner usually considered unbecoming to the sex". Her aim was to show that a woman could practice cooking as an art, preparing a complete aesthetic experience that combined exquisite flavors with a beautiful table, a soothing room, and lively conversation.
The Delights of Delicate Eating elevates "our daily bread" to a feast for the senses. Pennell leads the reader through the culinary delights of the day, from the fresh rolls of a solitary petit dejeuner through elaborate dinners complete with spotless linen, flawless silver, and cut flowers in vases of Venetian glass.
Pennell sets good eating as the basis for good living, a healthy imagination, a happy marriage, stimulating conversation, and satisfying social intercourse. For all who would embrace such benefits, The Delights of Delicate Eating offers a lovely diversion.
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