 | Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood - Entertaining - 1892 - 416 pages
...Thus gourmandize is that social love of good dinners which combines in one Athenian elegance, Roman luxury, and Parisian refinement. It implies discretion to arrange, skill to prepare, and taste to direct. It cannot be done superficially, and if done well it takes time, experience, and... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 440 pages
...have utterly forgot that social love of good eating which combines in one, Athenian elegance, Roman luxury, and Parisian refinement. It implies discretion...living, is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for whatever flatters the sense of taste. It is opposed to excess ; therefore every man... | |
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... classed with those good fellows amongst learned men who can put away gracefully a wing of partridge and then, by raising the little finger, wash it down with a glass of Lafitte or Clos-Vougeot. They have utterly forgot that social love of good eating... 