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fainting appetite and added a more exquisite and
They considered flowers as forming a very essential
ethereal enjoyment to the grosser pleasures of the
board . The gratification of the sense of smelling
traveller occasionally encounters a certain
and flowers proved of sovereign power
measure of novelty .
clarifying the functions of the brain . It
According to Pliny , and others , certain herbs
the sun , but regarding foodstuffs the
is said that there is nothing new under
they restore the hair of the bald and that
piece of resistance .
a delicacy . The visitor is told that
In China , for instance , dried rats are esteemed
A number of newly-born white mice served
like a prairie oyster is considered a
a stewed black rat will ward off a fever .
alive , dipped in treacle and swallowed
from eating it fresh , squash it , press
roasted on the point of a spear are
peoples have a high opinion of the octopus
as an article of diet . So have the Japanese
Among the natives of Northern Australia lizards
of it in almost any provision shop .
definitely a delicacy while Mediterranean
over with flour , you will find a stack
and the Chinese . The Celestials , apart
it and dry it , in which form , dusted
activities to a greater extent than is usually assumed .
If that country had not been for so long a battlefield red
provides many Magyar dishes with a vivid and brilliant
We naturally cannot overlook that Magyar cookery owes
Hungary would have been deprived of the condiment which
with the blood shed to defend Christian civilisation ,
Foodlore reflects much more of national temperament
one of its most classic features to the Turkish rule under
which the Hungarians groaned for nearly 200 years .
than is customarily imagined as well as entering human
fire , aerian creams , ingenious pastries and a
crescent-shaped breakfast roll created by a pastry cook to
aromatics where the paprika insinuates its perfidious
cookery is reminiscent of bull-fights , of Spanish dancing
celebrate the victory against the Turks in 1683 . Spanish
The Austrian cuisine embraces the delectable 6Wiener
Schnitzel as well as dishes and stews heightened with
and of Goja : it is vivid , highly coloured , sometimes
streaks of poetry , meat disguised under heavy and vehement
Quixotic and withal it has a sombre ardour , with
melody . The paprika and caraway perfume
ries recall in fact the rich heritage
the meats with their antithesis . The
opulent varieties of Czechoslovak past-
possibly comparable alone to a gypsy
essentially French , and , irrespective of
so languorous , so passionate , and
specifically national . The art and
The Czechoslovak kitchen , again , is
of rich embroideries and costumes
science of cookery , however , is
touch , the same unfailing sense of
proportion as exists among her
and aesthetic as well as physical .
exponents of things that are
derive from gastronomy is intellectual
feeding , the same subtle delicacy of
typically French .
The French have an inborn appreciation
of good food and the gusto which they
There is the same finesse about their
writers , music composers and other
her writers , music composers and other exponents of
the gusto which they derive from gastronomy is intellectual
about their feeding , the same subtle delicacy of touch ,
and aesthetic as well as physical . There is the same finesse
the same unfailing sense of proportion as exists among
The French have an inborn appreciation of good food and
things that are typically French .
The " pot-au-feu " is as much a national
institution in France as is tea drinking
least once a week in every bourgeois
baisse and sang - This Bouillabaisse
waxed enthusiastic about Bouilla-
a noble dish is , A sort of soup , or
broth , or brew , A hotch-potch of all
among ourselves and it is prepared at
could outdo ; Green herbs , red peppers ,
sorts of fishes That Greenwich never
household . Thackeray , of course ,
prepared at least once a week in every bourgeois
about Bouillabaisse and sang - This Bouillabaisse a
A hotch-potch of all sorts of fishes That Greenwich
The " pot-au-feu " is as much a national institution
never could outdo ; Green herbs , red peppers , mussels ,
saffron , Soles , onions , garlic , roach and dace .
noble dish is , A sort of soup , or broth , or brew ,
household . Thackeray , of course , waxed enthusiastic
in France as is tea drinking among ourselves and it is
piece of coarse bread and a
food , believing that it impaired the