He would have relished caviare, would have
ventured on laver, undeterred by its appearance, and would have
liked it. He would have eaten sausages for breakfast at Norwich,
sally-luns at Bath, sweet butter in Cumberland, orange marmalade at
Edinburgh, Findon haddocks at Aberdeen, and drunk punch with
beef-steaks to oblige the French, if they insisted upon obliging
him with a _dejeuner a l'Anglaise_."
'A good digestion turneth all to health.'
"He would have eaten squab pie in Devonshire, and the pie which is
squabber than squab in Cornwall; sheep's-head with the hair on in
Scotland, and potatoes roasted on the hearth in Ireland, frogs with
the French, pickled-herrings with the Dutch, sour-krout with the
Germans, maccaroni with the Italians, aniseed with the Spaniards,
garlic with anybody, horse-flesh with the Tartars, ass-flesh with
the Persians, dogs with the North-Western American Indians, curry
with the Asiatic East Indians, bird's-nests with the Chinese,
mutton roasted with honey with the Turks, pismire cakes on the
Orinoco, and turtle and venison with the Lord Mayor, and the turtle
and venison he would have preferred to all the other dishes,
because his taste, though Catholic, was not undiscriminating.
Pages:
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200