Old cookery books and ancient cuisine / by W. Carew Hazlitt.

  • William Carew Hazlitt
Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Old cookery books and ancient cuisine / by W. Carew Hazlitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTORY MAN has been distinguished from other animals in various ways ; but perhaps there is no particular in which he exhibits so marked a difference from the rest of creation —not even in the prehensile faculty resident in his hand—as in the objection to raw food, meat, and vegetables. He approximates to his inferior contemporaries only in the matter of fruit, salads, and oysters, not to mention wild-duck. He entertains no sympathy with the cannibal, who judges the flavour of his enemy improved by temporary commitment to a subterranean larder; yet, to be sure, he B
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