Overview
For Luncheon and Supper Guests is a practical entertaining and recipe book designed to help hosts plan attractive meals for visitors. Its real subject is hospitality.
This title is catalogued in Classics & Literature. Its reading profile is Medium and Moderate, with themes including practical knowledge, literature, social questions.
One-Page Summary
For Luncheon and Supper Guests is a practical entertaining and recipe book designed to help hosts plan attractive meals for visitors. Its real subject is hospitality. Menus are not merely combinations of food; they create an atmosphere, communicate care, and have to fit the time, ingredients, kitchen resources, and number of guests available. Alice Bradley offers guidance that reflects the domestic culture of her period, when preparing meals for guests required considerably more planning and labor than it does in many modern households. The recipes therefore double as social history.
They show what ingredients were considered suitable for polite entertaining and what kinds of meals signaled good taste. The result is a charming record of the art of hosting before modern convenience transformed the domestic kitchen.
Key Themes
Practical knowledge: This title is tagged with practical knowledge as one of its main themes.
Literature: This title is tagged with literature as one of its main themes.
Social questions: This title is tagged with social questions as one of its main themes.