Excerpt from Three Meals a Day: A Collection of Valuable and Reliable Recipes in All Classes of Cookery, With Toilet, Health and Housekeeping Departments
The science of cookery may very properly be classed among the fine arts, and certainly it is by no means the least among them; for, in the nature of events, a practical knowledge of scientific cooking touches more intimately our homes and home comforts, and influences the masses of the people as no other art, however lofty in its conception, or elevating in its results, may hope to do. The culinary art may truthfully be said to pave and prepare the foundation of all ?sthetical arts; for, as a man is inevitably what he eats, so the characteristics of the cookery presented to his palate, are almost invariably reproduced in his life and works.
"Good Cookery," says a contemporaneous writer, "is the foundation of good digestion; and good digestion is the foundation and first factor in sound thinking.
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