On Food: Its Varieties, Chemical Composition, Nutritive Value, Comparative Digestibility, Physiological Functions and Uses, Preparation, Culinary Treatment, Preservation, Adulteration, Etc
On Food: Its Varieties, Chemical Composition, Nutritive Value, Comparative Digestibility, Physiological Functions and Uses, Preparation, Culinary Treatment, Preservation, Adulteration, Etc.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ... rice boiled down with 3 lbs. of butter, weighing together 28 lbs.: --although the glutton had already breakfasted, yet he sat down to the meal with great eagerness, and consumed the whole without stirring from the spot; and, except that his stomach betrayed more than ordinary fulness, he showed no sign of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ... rice boiled down with 3 lbs. of butter, weighing together 28 lbs.: --although the glutton had already breakfasted, yet he sat down to the meal with great eagerness, and consumed the whole without stirring from the spot; and, except that his stomach betrayed more than ordinary fulness, he showed no sign of inconvenience. Captain Cochrane further adds that a good calf, weighing 200 lbs., will just serve for a meal for four or five Yakuti; and that he has himself seen three of them consume a reindeer at a meal. Liebig accounts for this by saying that a nation of hunters, especially when they go naked and are exposed to great losses of temperature, must consume large quantities of respiratory food; and if it so happens that the food is in its least effective form, as lean flesh, the quantity disposed of is enormous. Among civilised nations, and until comparatively recent times, there were but two meals a-day--namely, dinner and supper. These were the meals of the Romans--the prandium or dinner being for the most part a light refreshment, eaten while standing, at about nine o'clock in the morning; and it generally consisted of the cold remains of yesterday's supper. It was commonly taken without wine, and, in fact, there was so little ceremony about it, that Plautus, in his comedies, has facetiously called it caninum prandium. The great meal of the day was the supper, or ccena, which was taken about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and to which friends were invited. This was the ceremonious meal for which the wealthy and high families of Rome exhausted the resources of luxury and art. It always consisted of three parts--the gustus or antipast, which was intended as a mere smack or relish to whet the appetite. Then came the main part of the feast--consisti...
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