Show A CHAPTER ON FOOD the d hersity prevailing in different nations in reference to the various articles of food seems to confirm in its literal sense the proverbial saving baving savin that one maxas maas meat is isan an other ot hermans mass maWs poison many an article of food which is in agh esteem in one country is re carded in others with abhorrence which even famine can hardly surmount in the shetland island it is said that crabs and lobsters abound which the people catch for the london market but refuse to eat even when half starved the john dory is reckoned by epicures epi cures one of the choicest gish fish gih but in devonshire where frere it bounds and also Ire ireland freland and it used to be thrown away as unfit for food there seems to be some superstition connected with this as it is a lid tid that a devonshire cook flatly refused to dress it eel eels is in cumberland and westmoreland moreland ani ai algo in scotland are regarded by the people there h e with will h as much disgust aa henakes ae skate skate which ch is in high repute r in england in ireland is hardly ever eaten except by fishermen scallops ps on the other hand which are reckoned a dainty in ireland are hardly ever eaten in england and although they are abundant on many of the coasts few of the english have any idea that they are eatable the cuttlefish cuttle cuttie hish fish that kind which produces the inky dould fluid although found on our coast is not eaten by us but at naples it is highly esteemed and travelers tra vetera report that it tastes like veal cockchafers Cock chafers are candid and serve with other confectionery by the italians the hedgehog no one thinks of eating in england edgland except the gip gipsies sies and comb come who have joined them thern repart report rep rt that they are better than rabbit the siti sailors lors lorb in the english and dutch do not at the tue alesh flesh of 0 the tb whale but those in the french whaler with their well known skill in cookery are to make a palatable dish of it by almost all the lower classes in england venison enison and game of all kinds are held in abhorrence and ana BO so are as fresh afif figs s by the australian savages frogs a snakes large barge moths grubs picked from the woodall of which the english Engli eft settler settlers turn from in n disgust are esteemed dain daintie dainties tle tie but they are shocked at our eating oysters milk as 33 an article of food except for suck ing babies is loathed by the south sea islanders goats had been introduced into many ot of the islands but the people deride the settlers with using their milk and ask them why they do not mi milk ak their sows bows on the other hand band dogs and rats rata are favorite articles of food with them those last as is well known are I 1 often eaten by the Chine chinese sey ses who also eat salt earthworms and a kind of leasin which most europeans will turn from in disgust in the narrative of ancora voyages voy area agea Is a full account of the prejudice judice of the south americans both creoles cheoles cre 0 ge e I 1 and indians against turtle as poisonous the prisoners captured on the prize ships waned the sailors a against ainsil eating it and for a time lived on bay bad ship beef but seeing our men thrive on the turtle they began to eat it at first sparingly and at last heartily and when set ashore and liberated they declared they blessed the day of their capture which had bad introduced to them a plentiful supply of wholesome and delicious food horseflesh horse flesh which most europeans would refuse to eat except in great extremity is preferred by the tartars to all other and the flesh of a wild ass aes colt was greatly esteemed by the romans As for pork it is on religious grounds that jews and Mahome madans dans abstain from it as the do from beet beef but I 1 the he christians of the east seem to have nearly an equal aversion to it and the like prevailed till lately in scotland the large snail called was a favorite dainty wi h b the ancient rom bromn in and still is so in a great part of the south of europe though roost most englishmen would be half hair starved before they would eat it in vienna the large wood ants are served up p and eaten alive small land crabs are eaten alive in china the iguana a species of large large lizard is reckoned a great daina dainty y in 8 me of the west india islands maize the indian corn of america has been introduced into new zeala d by the missionaries and the people cultivate and hi highly k aly esteem it but their mode of p apar ln ing g it for food is to most eu eti reans beani dismast ing they steep it in water till it is quite putrid and then make it into a lind of porridge ridge 11 which emits a most intolerable stench human fieth flesh baa haa been and etin is eaten in many parts of the world and that by people considerably abo lowest rank of savages such buch as the thie figl figi islanders and an indian people called batta who are bald said to have a written language and even in cannibalism there are great diversities some nations eat their enemies and some their friends herodius relates that a persian king asked the I 1 dian soldiers that were in his service what reward would induce them to burn the dead bodies of their friends instead of eating them they replied by entreating entreat inz him not to mention mentin xi anything an thing BO so shocking on the other hand band the new zealand zealanders alanders Ze ers bt bufore fore their conversion who seemed to hava have considered that the proper diet of mankind is man seem to have eaten only their enemies Eu english glish paper |