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While wishing to be modest in all our assertions regarding the merits of this
Oriental Cook Book, we find ourselves hoping that it may eventually take its
place alongside of fine rugs, tapestries and other objects of art, as a means of
making the Orient known to the Occidental mind. The culinary art of those
romantic lands, whose people for many centuries have been the recipients and
faithful preservers of valuable secrets along this line, has a rare and
rewarding interest of its own, which, we believe, may well engage the earnest
attention of women of Western lands.
We have omitted illustrations in this book, for the good reason that Oriental
cooking is wholly based on remarkable combinations of foodstuffs which no
illustration can ever depict.
We feel that all our efforts will be well and fully repaid if this work meets
with appreciation on the part of any considerable number of those who are
interested in the art of cookery, either as housewives, cooking teachers or
professional cooks. We are quite confident that it will do so, if merit counts
for anything, for it not only stands alone as an exposition of Oriental cookery
in English, but we cannot find that it lacks any of the essentials
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