_Dear friend, will you accept this little book? It may sometimes bring a thought of Italy into your beautiful Surrey home_ The innate love of change in man is visible even in the kitchen. Not so very long ago soup was an exception in English houses--almost a luxury. A dish of vegetables--as a dish and not an adjunct to meat--was a still greater rarity; and even now plain-boiled potatoes, peas, cabbages, etc., are the rule. When we read of the dishes, fearfully and wonderfully made, in the old Italian _novelle_, we wonder whence the present Italians got their love of vegetables and maccaroni.…
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