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seminaristВ восемнадцатом веке, когда во Франции только появлялись первые порядочные рестораны, английские таверны уже славились в Европе. Кстати, один из первых парижских ресторанов, открытый в 1782 года, так и назывался - Большая лондонская таверна.
Самуэль Джонсон раз говорил Босуэллу после обеда в знаменитом оксфордширском трактире Чапел-хауз: 'There is no private house, in which people can enjoy themselves so well, as at a capital tavern. Let there be ever so great plenty of good things, ever so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that every body should be easy; in the nature of things it cannot be: there must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him: and no man, but a very impudent dog indeed, can as freely command what is in another man's house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome: and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward, in proportion as they please. No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.' (Boswell's 'Life of Johnson', 1776, March 21).
В Бристольском музее сохранилось рождественское меню, или, скорее, перечень кушаний и припасов на рождественскую неделю 1790 года в Bush Tavern. Эта гостиница доживет до середины 19 века и даже будет упомянута в "Записках Пиквикского клуба" (гл. 38), хотя и не так подробно, как многие другие - надо знать, что почти все гостиницы, трактиры и таверны в "Пиквике" настоящие, и некоторые из них существуют по сей день. Именно в Bush Tavern мистер Уинкль, бежавший из Бата от гнева ревнивого мистера Даулера, встретит этого джентльмена.
Самуэль Джонсон раз говорил Босуэллу после обеда в знаменитом оксфордширском трактире Чапел-хауз: 'There is no private house, in which people can enjoy themselves so well, as at a capital tavern. Let there be ever so great plenty of good things, ever so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that every body should be easy; in the nature of things it cannot be: there must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him: and no man, but a very impudent dog indeed, can as freely command what is in another man's house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome: and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward, in proportion as they please. No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.' (Boswell's 'Life of Johnson', 1776, March 21).
В Бристольском музее сохранилось рождественское меню, или, скорее, перечень кушаний и припасов на рождественскую неделю 1790 года в Bush Tavern. Эта гостиница доживет до середины 19 века и даже будет упомянута в "Записках Пиквикского клуба" (гл. 38), хотя и не так подробно, как многие другие - надо знать, что почти все гостиницы, трактиры и таверны в "Пиквике" настоящие, и некоторые из них существуют по сей день. Именно в Bush Tavern мистер Уинкль, бежавший из Бата от гнева ревнивого мистера Даулера, встретит этого джентльмена.
