The book is less a treatise on cuisine or on culinary arts and more a witty compendium of random chit-chat and precepts, of anecdotes and observations of every kind that might enhance the pleasures of the table with only an occasional recipe being offered.
A random selection of postcards.
As a result, it was a compendium of compromises.
Parents or guardians complete a 'family questionnaire', which is a compendium of several questionnaires.
The finished commentaries in many ways go beyond the scope of the poems, becoming a compendium of instruction with much of the random display of an amateur in philosophy.
Anderson is a giant compendium of trademarks.
The opera presents a virtual compendium of Vaughan Williams's work.
The texts preserve many archaic liturgies and are a valuable compendium of early Egyptian beliefs.
A comprehensive compendium of chiral pincer complexes and their synthesis is provided.
A superb compendium of contemporary documents, diaries, letters, newspaper articles and narratives from the American Revolutionary War period.
