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

  • Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913.
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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    it. His Roman foregoer, who would cer- tainly never have gone for his dinner to Clare Market, relished good dishes, even if he could not cook them. It appears not unlikely that the Romish clergy, whose monastic vows committed them to a secluded life, were thus led to seek some compensation for the loss of other worldly pleasures in those of the table; and that, when one considers the luxury of the old abbeys, one ought to recollect at the same time, that it was perhaps in this case as it was in regard to letters and the arts, and that we are under a certain amount of obligation to the monks for modifying the barbarism of the table, and encouraging a study of gastronomy. There are more ways to fame than even Horace suspected. The road to immortality is not one but manifold. A man can but do what he can. As the poet writes and the painter fills with his inspiration the mute and void canvas, so doth the Cook his part. There was formerly apopular work in France entitled “ Le Cuisinier Royal,” by MM. Viard and Fouret, who describe them-