书名：How to Dine in Style: The Art of Entertaining 1920 / 如何优雅地用餐：待客的艺术 1920年
定价：118.0
ISBN：9781851240869
作者：J. Rey
版次：1
出版时间：2013-10

内容提要：

题 目：How to Dine in Style: The Art of Entertaining 1920 / 如何优雅地用餐：待客的艺术 1920年

作 者：J. Rey

出 版：Bodleian Library，2013

装 帧：精装，184页

尺 寸：12.9*19.8 cm

 

 

First published in 1920, How to Dine in Style opens a window onto the golden age of elegant dining, where the basic function of ingesting nourishment was elevated to a high social art, attended by intricate details and elaborate ritual.

 

Starched linens, candles, white gloves, apéritifs, ball suppers, French menus and garden-parties – this is the world of the decadent classes who came to prominence in the post-war period.

 

Published in an age where achieving a reputation for throwing recherché dinner parties was a route to international celebrity, this is a book about food as performance art. In it we catch tantalizing glimpses of astonishing excess such as the craze for eccentric venues for dinner parties, including the roof of a Chicago home (for amateur mountaineers), a lion’s den, and a gondola in the Savoy.

 

An engaging blend of practical advice and a catalogue of eccentricity, this book contains everything you need to know, from the fine art of composing a menu to the practicalities of the correct order and temperatures for serving wines.