How To Dine In Style: The Art Of Entertaining, 1920

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.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:J. Rei - Дж. Рей

Publisher:Bodleian Library

Language:English

Publication Date:2013

Number of pages:184 pst

Format:Hardcover

Width:129 mm / 5,1'

Height:198 mm / 7,8'

Weight:336 g

ISBN:9781851240869