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Jun 25, 2024 · The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Vol. I Only by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Publication date 1858 Publisher Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company Collection
1 day ago · Holmes is best known for The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table, a series of essays on a broad range of topics written in a homespun Yankee style as one-sided dialogues with unnamed interlocutors at ...
Jun 28, 2024 · He was the son of a famous father (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., renowned for "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table"), a thrice-wounded veteran of the Civil War, a Harvard-educated member of Brahmin Boston, the acquaintance of Longfellow, Lowell, and Emerson, andfor a time a close friend of William James.
Jun 12, 2024 · As I mentioned last issue, Oliver Wendell Holmes’ The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table is on my Six Book list. I had no idea what to expect, but I started it and realized it is like reading Martin Luther’s Table Talk —lots of somewhat unrelated musings, one after another after another. Come to think of it, I guess that is also sort of like ...
23 hours ago · Unsurprisingly, the rest of the White House meals increased in extravagance when Melah moved in as well. At Grant's new dinner parties, everything from French vegetable soup to beef filets with ...
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17 hours ago · As we were speaking, a coconut stuffed with a flattened rice-like preparation was placed on the table. It was her twist on the traditional Goan Portuguese shrimp-based side dish, kismur. She had reimagined it as a vegetarian dish with tender coconut, streaked with sweet and sour tamarind glaze and speckled with crispy curry leaves.
