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By Irving S. Paull
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A series of richly descriptive menu entries and culinary essays from a grand hotel kitchen, presenting rare and historic dishes alongside preparation notes and anecdotes about their cultural origins. Each entry explains ingredients, traditional service and flavor characteristics—examples include Beluga caviar on blinis, stuffed tomatoes, poule au pot, bird's-nest consommé and bouillabaisse—while reflecting on epicurean taste, technique and the ceremonial aspects of dining at a luxury establishment.

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Title: Congress Hotel, Home of a Thousand Homes

Author: Irving S. Paull

W. S. Goodnaw

Illustrator: Sam Stoltz

A. Fred Tellendar

Release date: June 28, 2016 [eBook #52422]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note:

The spelling in this short text is a mixture of American and British English. The little French is both accented correctly and missing accents. The spellings below are exactly as found in the original.

Congress Hotel
Home of
a Thousand Homes

Rare and Piquant
Dishes
of
Historic
Interest

Copyrighted by
N·M·Kaufman
1914

True friends a few, a nice abode,
 And dinners fine and Recherchés—
 Far better such for peace of mind
 Than Life's refrain "Ah Lack a Day."

—Grimrod de la Reyniere

he epicure says we live to eat; the ascetic maintains we eat to live. Perchance there is a grain of truth in the French maxim that we eat to live only when we do not understand how to live to eat. However that may be, those of us who are wise in our generation are content with the golden mean between these widely variant schools.

The dishes herein set forth are a few of the most piquant and rare in all the enchanting lore of cookery. About many of them cluster striking anecdotes of famous characters of history whose destinies have been strangely influenced by their epicurean tastes and habits.

These and other culinary masterpieces are produced at the Congress by artistes de cuisine, and served in their distinctive native form. Those who have visited famous eating places abroad will be glad to renew their acquaintance with these celebrated dishes. All who appreciate exquisite cookery will find them a delightful treat.

These delicacies do not appear on the regular bill of fare, but on a special menu card which may be had, upon request, from the maitre d'hotel.

"Man is a carnivorous production
 And must have meals—at least once a day
 He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction."

—Lord Byron