Good-Living. By Sara van Buren Brugiere. (Putnam's Sons.)— The title
of this book is suggestive too much of Lucullan tastes, and means to gratify them. In reality, however," Good-Living," as treated by the author, is simply that plain but scientific living which is so conducive to health and domestic happiness. This is, in fact, an eminently "practical" cookery-book, and the author has elaborately "eschewed all fancifully extravagant receipts, calling for condiments which are not habitually in use, or for an excessive quantity of any very expensive materials." At the same time, as eveiy tenth page or so shows, she has by no means for- gotten the poor gourmet. The book is intended, in the first instance, for American housekeepers, as numberless dishes are in- cluded which, if known at all, are known only by name on this side of the Atlantic, and allusions are made to "European customs," which are described as "worth importing." At the same time, cooking, like hunger, is international, and nine-tenths of this book will be thoroughly understood and appreciated by English readers. It is a complete dictionary of its subject, and, unlike most cookery-books, is remarkably well printed.
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