Arte Culinario

Adolfo Solichón, pastry chef to the Royal Household and a disciple of Madrid's Casa de Lhardy, said in the prologue to his book, El arte culinario (The Culinary Art) (ca.1900):

"The art of cookery follows the path of progress, to which it is intimately connected. Nobody would dare deny that the artists who work with such brilliance today have added great momentum, bringing a high level of perfectionism, majesty, and luxury, as well as useful methods. To deny this would be to suggest that the art is in decline."