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Their schools are public-houses, where they are educated in the sciences of eating, drinking, and carving; over which, one Archisilenius, an exquisite Epicure, was then provost, who, instead of grammar, read some fragments of Apicius. Instead of a library, there is a public repository of drinking-vessels, in which cups of all orders and sizes are disposed into certain classes.
The light talk and the solid eatables were not soon at an end, for after the roast and boiled meats came the indispensable capon and game, and, crowning glory of a well-spread table, a peacock cooked according to the receipt of Apicius for cooking partridges, namely, with the feathers on, but not plucked afterwards, as that great authority ordered concerning his partridges; on the contrary, so disposed on the dish that it might look as much as possible like a live peacock taking its unboiled repose.
No; the muraena, so respected by the ancient Roman senators, was a salt-water fish, and kept by our nobles in ponds, into which the sea was admitted. Darteneuf. Why, then, I dare say our Severn lampreys are better. Did you ever eat any of them stewed or potted? Apicius. I was never in Britain. Your country then was too barbarous for me to go thither.
That is what I call the poetry of gastronomy!" "Yes," said I, with a sigh, "they certainly had, in some respects, the advantage over us. Who can pore over the suppers of Apicius without the fondest regret? Brougham in honour of Mr. "Bravo, my lord," cried I, warmly. "'Qu'un Cuisinier est un mortel divin! Why should we not be proud of our knowledge in cookery?
Now it chanced one day, as they sat at meat, with viands rare, dainty, and precious as ever Apicius dreamed of, that there fluttered on the air a faint sound as of sermons, speeches, orations, addresses, discourses, lectures, and the like; whereat Panurge, pricking up his ears, cried, 'Methinks this wind bloweth from Midlothian, and so fell a trembling.
Stay, look at that beautiful suit of Mecklenburg silk which Belle-bouche admired so much I saw she did. Tom gave me that in return for my new suit of embroidered cloth. Who says human nature is not disinterested?" "Cynic!" "Yes, I would be, were I not a Stoic." "You are neither you are an Epicurean." "Granted: I am even an Apician." "What's that? Who was Apicius?"
Ay, to have died without tasting that is miserable indeed! There is rum punch and arrack punch! It is difficult to say which is best, but Jupiter would have given his nectar for either of them, upon my word and honour. Apicius. The thought of them puts me into a fever with thirst. Darteneuf.
In Toulouse, whence now comes the best of this dainty of the epicure, the geese are crammed daily with a dough of corn meal mixed with the oil of poppies, fed through a tin funnel, which is introduced into the esophagus of the unhappy bird. At the end of a month the stertorous breathing of the victim proclaims the time of sacrifice to Apicius. Sir Anthony Fitzherbert calls them fullymartes.
"So ends the seventh game, and here we are still. Parbleu! Horace, hasn't that absinthe given you an inconvenient amount of appetite?" "Alas! my friend don't mention it. And when the absinthe is paid for, I haven't a sou." "My own case precisely. What's to be done?" "Done!" echoed Horace, pathetically. "Shade of Apicius! inspire me...but, no he's not listening." "Hold! I have it.
If old Apicius were alive, he could tell thee something, for in the course of his life he ate more fish than could find place at one time in the bay of Naples." Further conversation was interrupted, since they were borne into crowded streets where the noise of people hindered them.
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