[Sca-cooks] Hazlitt's "Old Cookery Books And Ancient Cuisine", 1902 edition, online

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12293/12293-h/12293-h.htm

It's basically an overview of the history of [mostly] English  
cookery, with references to several of our Usual Suspect sources,  
plus one or two you might not have encountered.

Adamantius





"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread, you have to say, let them eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
     -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry  
Holt, 07/29/04