Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow … - Catharine Beecher

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His eyes, I’d long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for a public setting.

Catharine Beecher

Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. . . . in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.

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