"These essays are noble relics indeed, and Jekyll has the
puff-pastry touch."--BookForum
"Three cheers to Persephone Books for publishing this witty,
sharp writer, nostalgic but unsentimental, humorous but precise,
erudite and always elegant."--"Country Living"
"Kitchen Essays is a rare thing, a cookbook that is as fun to
read as its food is to eat."--"Sunday Herald" (Glasgow)
" An] exquisitely reprinted period piece."--"BBC Good Food"
magazine
First published in "The Times" (London) during the 1920s,
"Kitchen Essays" explains the proper way to make Lobster Newburg
while offering fascinating insight into the social history of
England.
Agnes Jekyll felt that cooking should fit the occasion and
temperament and states that "a large crayfish or lobster rearing
itself menacingly on its tail seems quite at home on a sideboard of
a Brighton hotel-de-luxe, but will intimidate a shy guest at a
small dinner-party." And that "a hardy sportsman should not be fed
in the same way as a depressed financier."
Agnes Jekyll (1860-1937) was the daughter of William Graham,
Liberal MP for Glasgow and patron of the Pre-Raphaelites. A
celebrated hostess and entertainer, her first dinner party included
Robert Browning, John Ruskin, and Edward Burne-Jones. She lived in
Surrey, England.
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