Excerpt from The Kitchen, or Every-Day Cookery: Containing Many Useful Practical Directions, Recipes, Etc., With Numerous Wood Engravings Showing How to Carve, and the Proper Mode of Sending Dishes to Table At a public dinner an eminent man of letters was attempt ing to carve a turkey of somewhat uncertain age, when his fork Slipped and the bird slid into the lap of a distinguished lady sitting opposite. Without seeming to be at all disturbed or disconcerted, he held out the platter in both hands and said, quite courteously, Madam, I'll thank you for that turkey. Not many men are endowed with this degree of coolness under such circumstances. There are few persons who are So thoroughly Skilled in table dissection as not to be embarrassed on being called upon to carve when surrounded by a company of strangers, or even friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.