Vulgar words in The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes (Page 1)
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For the cookery we meet in the hotels of the great European cities, though it may be based on French traditions, is not the genuine thing, but a bastard, cosmopolitan growth, the same everywhere, and generally vapid and uninteresting.