Memoirs of a stomach / written by himself.

  • Sydney Whiting
Date:
[between 1850 and 1859]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of a stomach / written by himself. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    intervals, with perhaps just a plat of golden plovers and a bottle of champagne at midnight, a French gentleman may lay claim, quite as pretentious as an Englishman, to a love of the good things of this life, —but then the Gallic gourmet is an artist. Every dish has a chromatic relation with its antecedent. Every condiment has a studied specific purpose; and every bottle of wine is either harmonic, or a proper discord with, the particular entremets over which it is destined to commingle.* The English system of cookery it would be impertinent for me to describe ; bnt stiU when I think of that huge round of par- boiled ox flesh, with sodden dumplings, floating in a saline, greasy mixture, surrounded by carrots looking red with disgust, and turnips pale with dismay, I cannot help a sort of inward shudder, and making comparisons imfavourahle to English gas- tronomy. It was all very well for the sense of sight, and sometimes that of smell, to complain, but what were their grievances to mine ? Oh, Hercules, how I did work ! 1 glass of liqueur should be taken after coffee. French epicures style these—1, Chasse; 2, Rincette; 3, Surrincette; 4, Gloria I
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