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Identifier: americancookery19unse_0 (find matches)
Title: American cookery
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) : Whitney Publications (etc.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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clientele, presidedover by English ladies in severe andcorrect style, who even brought theirstocks and fixtures with them, deploringat the same time the fact that foreignwater could never make tea properly. In course of time these tea-roomsbecame the sanctuaries of the lonewoman traveler from across theChannel, also the unprotected Americanwoman en tour came by degrees to availherself of their hospitality, digestingher foreign travel impressions over teaand scones and buttered muffins underthe benevolent gaze of portraits of theEnglish Royal Family; thus the EnglishTea-Room became a recognized factorin foreign travel. Then the native woke up and said,This game looks easy, and reachedout to gather some of the golden fruitfor himself from this particular branchof the tree of travelers lore. At first,in an humble fashion pastry shops,creameries, bakeries and the like begantimidly to insert in their signs the singleword Tea, but asked a stiff price asbefitted an exotic, and even so, were
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The First Paris Tea Room. TheseWere Not the Days of Publicity. Early EngHsh Tea Rooms. 196 AMERICAN COOKERY surprised to see the money come in sofast. Then the large Tourist Hotel beganto take notice. This was some tenyears or so back, when it was sheddingits provincialisms and expanding onample lines, intended to appeal to andplease a clientele from over-seas. Itwelcomed the newcomer, who sought itsprotection, but did not seem to demandtoo much attention and time, withcomplacency and condescension, andassigned afternoon tea a lowly placeon its menu, content enough to be ableto add a fifth meal to its day and onewhich was mostly profit. The servicewas there, and the rooms might as wellbe kept working full time and a thecomplef could not be otherwise thanbig with financial profits even withEuropean tea at two dollars a pound. So sly tea, winking behind its saucer,shyly and gratefully accepted a minorrole, to humbly share a restricted hos-pitality in the Lounge, in companywith after-din

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