wow, this is an interesting web site!

[grasswire]

http://onthetable.us/culinaryquotes.shtml

A collection of culinary quotes from many many sources. Lots of fun.

[pscot]

1. Fun

but too many at a sitting leaves you feeling bloated.

[Warpy]

2. It was entirely worth the read for this one, alone

"…as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death…" Abraham Lincoln

[grasswire]

4. I came across something more disturbing.

Lewis Lapham, former publisher of Harper's magazine, has an online publication filled with all kinds of readings from ancient to modern. Check this out from his issue on food:

1661 / London
It Just Tastes Better


To roast a goose alive. Let it be a duck or goose or some such lively creature, but a goose is best of all for this purpose. Leaving his neck, pull off all the feathers from his body, then make a fire round about him, not too wide, for that will not roast him. Within the place, set here and there small pots full of water, with salt and honey mixed therewith, and let there be dishes set full of roasted apples, and cue in pieces in the dish, and let the goose be basted with butter all over and larded to make him better meat and he may roast the better. Put fire to it, do not make too much haste; when he begins to roast, walking about and striving to fly away, the fire stops him in, and he will fall to drink water to quench his thirst—this will cool his heart and the other parts of his body, and by this medicament he looseneth his belly and grows empty. And when he roasteth and consumes inwardly, always wet his head and heart with a wet sponge, but when you see him run madding and stumble, his heart wants moisture; take him away, set him before your guests, and he will cry as you cut off any part from him and will be almost eaten up before he be dead; it is very pleasant to behold.


http://laphamsquarterly.org/magazine/food.php

[Warpy]

5. Not much compared to what they used to do to each other

and it didn't take them much of an excuse to do it, either.

[pengillian101]

7. OMG

How barbaric.

[grasswire]

8. let's see.....1661

That would have been during the reign of King Charles II -- aka "the merrie monarch."

[Lucinda]

3. Very cool! Thankie!

:)

[pengillian101]

6. Thanks alot for posting this.

Fun reading, for sure!