‘Mr. Williams is a good chemist and a pleasant writer: he has evidently been a keen observer of dietaries in various countries, and his little book contains much that is worth reading.’—Athenæum.
‘There is plenty of room for this excellent book by Mr. Mattieu Williams. . . . There are few conductors of cookery classes who are so thoroughly grounded in the science of the subject that they will not find many valuable hints in Mr. Williams’s pages.’—Scotsman.
‘Throughout the work we find the signs of care and thoughtful investigation. . . . Mr. Williams has managed most judiciously to compress into a very small compass a vast amount of authoritative information on the subject of food and feeding generally—and the volume is really quite a compendium of its subject.’—Food.
‘The British cook might derive a good many useful hints from Mr. Williams’s latest book. . . . The author of “The Chemistry of Cookery” has produced a very interesting work. We heartily recommend it to theorists, to people who cook for themselves, and to all who are anxious to spread abroad enlightened ideas upon a most important subject. . . . Hereafter, cookery will be regarded, even in this island, as a high art and science. We may not live to those delightful days; but when they come, and the degree of Master of Cookery is granted to qualified candidates, the “Chemistry of Cookery” will be a text-book in the schools, and the bust of Mr. Mattieu Williams will stand side by side with that of Count Rumford upon every properly-appointed kitchen dresser.’—Pall Mall Gazette.
‘Housekeepers who wish to be fully informed as to the nature of successful culinary operations should read “The Chemistry of Cookery.”’—Christian World.
‘In all the nineteen chapters into which the work is divided there is much both to interest and to instruct the general reader, while deserving the attention of the “dietetic reformer.” . . . The author has made almost a life-long study of the subject.’—English Mechanic.
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‘Few writers on popular science know better how to steer a middle course between the Scylla of technical abstruseness and the Charybdis of empty frivolity than Mr. Mattieu Williams. He writes for intelligent people who are not technically scientific, and he expects them to understand what he tells them when he has explained it to them in his perfectly lucid fashion without any of the embellishments, in very doubtful taste, which usually pass for popularisation. The papers are not mere réchauffés of common knowledge. Almost all of them are marked by original thought, and many of them contain demonstrations or aperçus of considerable scientific value.’—Pall Mall Gazette.