Produced by Karin Spence, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: THE PLEASURES OF THE TABLE] BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR "The Garden's Story, or Pleasures and Trials of an Amateur Gardener." Illustrated by Louis Rhead. "The Story of My House." With a frontispiece by Sidney L. Smith. "In Gold and Silver." Illustrated by A. B. Wenzell and W. Hamilton Gibson. "The Rose." By H. B. Ellwanger. Revised edition, with an Introduction by George H. Ellwanger. "Idyllists of the Country Side." With a title-page by George Wharton Edwards. "Love's Demesne: A Garland of Contemporary Love Poems Gathered from Many Sources." "Meditations on Gout, with a Consideration of its Cure through the Use of Wine." With a frontispiece and title-page by George Wharton Edwards. [Illustration: "A SA TOUTE-PUISSANCE!" From the painting by Gabriel Metzu, 1664] [Illustration: THE PLEASURES OF THE TABLE AN ACCOUNT OF GASTRONOMY FROM ANCIENT DAYS TO PRESENT TIMES. WITH A HISTORY OF ITS LITERATURE, SCHOOLS, AND MOST DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS; TOGETHER WITH SOME SPECIAL RECIPES, AND VIEWS CONCERNING THE AESTHETICS OF DINNERS AND DINNER-GIVING. BY GEORGE H. ELLWANGER, M.A. NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY PAGE AND CO. 1902 ] Copyright, 1902, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. [Illustration: FANTAISIE CULINAIRE: LE POISSON PRÉVOYANT By A. Thierry] [Illustration: TO HER, TRUE COMRADE, WHOSE VERSANT TOUCH AND ARTFUL HAND HAVE KEENED MY ZEST FOR GASTRONOMIC LORE, THIS VOLUME IS DEVOTEDLY INSCRIBED. ] "Gasteria is the Tenth Muse; she presides over the enjoyments of Taste." BRILLAT-SAVARIN. "The History of Gastronomy is that of manners, if not of morals; and the learned are aware that its literature is both instructive and amusing; for it is replete with curious traits of character and comparative views of society at different periods, as well as with striking anecdotes of remarkable men and women whose destinies have been strangely influenced by their epicurean tastes and habits."