As an illustration, I recall the following striking instance of gastronomic discrimination in a carnivorous appetite, as exemplified in a full-grown pet hawk which I had tethered near my country studio.
Sidenote: =In matters of taste=] But this question of gastronomic prestige will perhaps never be finally settled.
I think if I could devote a year to it, I might be able to make out a graduated scale of articles of food, taking a well-boiled fresh egg as the unit of gastronomic value, but I leave this scientific task to some future observer.
One sauce which was served us was a gastronomic symphony, the harmonies of which were new to me and pleasing.
The dishes are planned and arranged with reference to their relation to one another, are harmonized, blended, resolved into wonderful, sense-satisfying gastronomic chords.
A succession of flavours leads subtly and cumulatively to a gastronomic climax, drinks are not absorbed with blithe impartiality, but run a faultless scale of stimulation and form a fitting accompaniment to the progressive harmony of the food.
Every Monday evening during the season the Gastronomic Agent proposes to give a series of trial-dinners, to which the principal gormands of the metropolis, and a few of The Agent's most respectable clients, will be invited.
The reader will observe that my style in the supposed character of a Gastronomic Agent is purposely pompous and loud.
Snorter and Pogson may almost as well order their own dinners, as be at the mercy of a "gastronomic agent" whose faith is not beyond all question.
Here I have sketched out the heads of such an address as I conceive a gastronomic agent might put forth; and appeal pretty confidently to the British public regarding its merits and my own discovery.
Let the reader think but for one moment of the gastronomic wealth of our country of England, and he will be lost in thankful amazement as he watches the astonishing riches poured out upon us from Nature's bounteous cornucopia!
Agent may be permitted the expression)--what glorious gastronomic crops do we sacrifice, allowing our goodly meats and fishes to lie fallow!
Ten minutes after D'Artagnan's departure, the three gentlemen sat down to table, which was covered with the most substantial display of gastronomic luxury.
I verily believe that were he to be served with a corked wine, the result would be instant dissolution between his gastronomic soul and body.
I suppose, as a matter of fact, I sat down to breakfast just about the time when the gastronomic warrior was thinking of luncheon.
Our gastronomic friend merely grunted for reply, and I should have thought him to be asleep had not the red glow of his cigar assured me that he was still awake.
The birds of the air and beasts of the field still contributed to the world's gastronomic pleasures.
Aunt Maude's plaintive question when she realized that she was in the midst of a gastronomic revolution.
They knew much of gastronomic lore, these Old Gentlemen, and they liked to talk of things to eat.
I consider that the "gastronomic art," as it is pompously called, is ninety-nine per cent plain rubbish.
Needless to say, this elaborate gastronomic art has been developed without any relation to health, or any thought of the true needs of the body.
In striking contrast to our mere eating was my guests' enjoyment of every morsel of the food which they had selected, not simply because it was food, but because it was a note fitting into the gastronomic harmony.
It is not probable that many who do me the honour to skim through these humble, faultily-written, but heartfelt gastronomic hints are personally acquainted with the cloyless Sambal, who is a lady of dusky origin.
The Englishman in China has not a particularly good time of it, in the gastronomic way, and H.
Their only note in these gastronomic explorations is a simple chip, uttered with considerable force, and at times so quickly, as to give rise to a confused twittering.
While remarkably fond of the joys of the table, as evidenced by the industry and perseverance with which they pursue their gastronomic exploits, they are not so thoroughly epicurean in their lives as to forget the claims of affection.
But by epicures, it is considered as of rather inferior standing, lacking the delicacy of flesh which makes the Green-winged Teal and others of such immense gastronomic value.
Among the great gastronomicnames of Napoleon's day was that of his chancellor Cambaceres, of whose dinners many stories are told.
The Romans, emerging from their pristine simplicity, borrowed from the Greeks their achievements in gastronomic pleasure.
How would this compare with the Gargantuan feasts described by Brillat-Savarin and others, or the gastronomic exploits of those who ate two turkeys at a sitting?
Of his gastronomic and epicurean abilities he was vainly proud.
He shifted conversation to pleasanter things, and by the time Joseph had served them a nice little dinner Mr. Wade's outer man bore the visible signs of gastronomic peace.
Many a bonne bouche is served that goes into gastronomic history.
One ancestor put pigs' ears in pea soup and made a gastronomic hit.
Bismarck now decided to try various gastronomic oddities; ordered his staff to shoot pheasants from the Baron's preserves, and commanded the cook to stew the birds in champagne!
It being a beautiful moonlight evening upon the last occasion of the kind, we determined to avail ourselves of it, and attend the party whose gastronomic performance was to commence at seven o'clock.
Two or three thoroughly smoked hams, suspended from the beams, announced that there was no fear of a famine before the gastronomic massacres of Middlemas.
Interference with his gastronomic habits made him so angry that he dropped the knife and fork for the bayonet and took back any lost ground in a ferocious counter-attack.
These gastronomic experiments called for a counter-proof.
This refusal to touch honey, whether poisonous or repugnant, is connected with principles of alimentation too general to be a gastronomic peculiarity of the Philanthus grub.
