“Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion.” FashionTablesExcellenceFishesDinnerLuxuryIndispensablePretence Author:Isabella Beeton
“The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.” GivingCultureHoursLosesPartyHalfDinnerFlyingColourMistressHalf HoursLaurelsDinner PartyOrdeals Book:Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition Source: Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition
“I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.” WaySourceDinnerDiscontentHousewifeMismanagement Author:Isabella Beeton
“What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men and women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways.” MenWayFirstsSufferingSourceMen And WomenMovedDinnerInstanceHouseholdDiscomfortDiscontentHousewifeMismanagement Author:Isabella Beeton
