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Title: American cookery
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) : Whitney Publications (etc.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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tea-table talk and awafer or two. Court favors were notobtained by kindness of heart andsincerity of intention. Rather thelarder must groan and the table creakere conviviality be established. There must be delicacies concocted of nightin-gales tongues and pigeons wings, mar-vels of pastry, sweets without numberand wine freely flowing. In connection with the ShakespeareFestival held last month at TeachersCollege, Columbia University, in com-memoration of the tercentenary anni-versary of the poets death, a verydaring and successful experiment wastried by the department of Foods andCookery under the direction of Miss V. , head of the department. An effort was made to dispense hospi-tality as to lords and ladies of theElizabethan age. No transition can be more startlingthan to walk from a spotless, white-porcelain, nickel-fitted cooking labora-tory to a stately Tudor banquet hall,where one can almost hear the rustleof crinoline and where the echoes ofmirthful banter between Elizabeth and
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TUDOR BANQUET HALL 751 Photograph by J. M. Turner 752 AMERICAN COOKERY Lord Burleigh seem just to have diedaway. The room which, at any other time ofthe year, is the dining room connectedwith the cooking laboratories of the col-lege, is paneled high with oaken wains-coting, which seems mellowed and dark-ened from its centuries of use in someancestral hall. Tiled floors and casementwindows perfect the details. The fur-nishings of the room are severe andsombre with occasional bits of brilliantcolor. Long, low wooden benches areplaced against the walls under the case-ment windows; a curious old sideboard,decorated in fantastic designs, holds bitsof old pewter and wooden bowls. Thebanquet table is of course the mostprominent feature and this completesthe furnishings. Tall groups of whitecandles, placed at intervals, light theroom dimly and fill it with movingshadows. Bright banners and burlaphangings stenciled in gay colors withships, lions and knights give the note ofgaudiness so charact

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