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Field name | Value |
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Reference | TX 331.R64 1828 |
Library/Archive | University of California, San Diego |
Title | The house servant's directory |
Author/Creator | Roberts, Robert |
Date | 1828 |
Collection | American Institute of Wine & Food Culinary Collection |
Collection Overview | UC San Diego’s AIWF Collection includes more than 7,200 volumes, beginning with descriptions of European cuisine and culinary history from the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, and more recently focusing on Asia, Mexico and Latin America, California and the American West, and the nations of the Pacific Rim. In addition to culinary history, the collection supports research and instruction in cultural studies, social history, women’s studies, anthropology, nutrition, and medicine. |
Place of Publication | Boston, New York, USA |
Publisher | Munroe and Francis |
Document Type | Printed Book |
Theme | Food and Identity |
Subjects | household household management housekeeper |
Description | The house servant's directory or "A monitor for private families, comprising hints on the arrangement and performance of servants' work, with general rules for setting out tables and sideboards in first order, the art of waiting in all its branches and likewise how to conduct large and small parties with order, general directions for placing on table all kinds of joints, fish, fowl, full instructions for cleaning plate, brass, steel, glass, mahogany, all kinds of patent and common lamps, observations on servants' behaviour to their employers and upwards of 100 various and useful receipts, chiefly compiled for the use of house servants and identically made to suit the manners and customs of families in the United States". |
Countries | United States |
Places | New York; Boston Massachusetts |
Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the catalogue of the University of California, San Diego. |
Copyright and Source Archive | Material sourced from the University of California, San Diego. |