Food and flavor, a gastronomic guide to health and good living . p^ X BRITISH SPECIALTIES. thackerays little sermon. NGLAND has produced someeminent epicures. As prominentamong them as among her novelistsis William Makepiece a magazine article on Green-wich and Whitebait, dated 1844,he expressed his scorn for thosewho do not appreciate good man who brags regarding himself; that whateverhe swallows is the same to him, and that his coarsepalate recognizes no difference between venison andturtle, pudding or mutton-broth, as his indifferentjaws close over them, brags about a pe
Food and flavor, a gastronomic guide to health and good living . p^ X BRITISH SPECIALTIES. thackerays little sermon. NGLAND has produced someeminent epicures. As prominentamong them as among her novelistsis William Makepiece a magazine article on Green-wich and Whitebait, dated 1844,he expressed his scorn for thosewho do not appreciate good man who brags regarding himself; that whateverhe swallows is the same to him, and that his coarsepalate recognizes no difference between venison andturtle, pudding or mutton-broth, as his indifferentjaws close over them, brags about a personal defect—the wretch—and not about a virtue. It is likea man boasting that he has no ear for music, or no eyefor color, or that his nose cannot scent the differencebetween a rose and a cabbage—I say, as a general rule, 394 BRITISH SPECIALTIES 395 set that man down as a conceited fellow who swaggersabout not caring for dinner. Three years earlier, in his Memorials of Gormandiz-ing, which he penned in Paris, he preached another ser-mon on the subject—a sermon which may fitly
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