Receipts in modern cookery : with a medical commentary / by A. Hunter.

  • Hunter, A. (Alexander), 1729-1809.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Receipts in modern cookery : with a medical commentary / by A. Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PREFACE. The art of cookery boasts an origin coeval with the creation of man; but in its early stages we must suppose that it was directed only to the wants and necessities of mankind. In process of time, invention was employed in rendering ani- mal and vegetable substances more inviting to the palate, with a view to add pleasure to the natural necessity of eating. And that this was the origin of refined cookery cannot be ques- tioned. Apicius seems to have cultivated the art with great assiduity, being in his own person a gourmand of quality. There were three per- sons of that name, all lovers of good eating ; but Caelius Apicius, who lived in the time of Tiberius, is the one who has left us the history of Roman cookery. — Of this book, the best edition was printed in London, in the year 1705, with notes