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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition

Book by Isabella Beeton · 6 quotes · Cooking, Civilization, Culinary

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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition Quotes

“A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may not perceive the odour incident to cooking, or hear the noise of culinary operations.”

“As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.”