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Dinners drest in the neatest manner
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · October 1811
The preparations of the cook in question are not calculated to increase the appetite of the observant epicure ; the chef is hideous, old, rheumy, slovenly, and diseased ; he is kneading the paste with his objectionable hands, his snuffbox is on the board by his side ; while a blowsy and uncombed slattern is reaching down a pie-dish, in which the rats have been revelling ; the bold depredators are scampering off no farther than the next dish. Companion to "Distillers looking into their own business."
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