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Show lie Ate His Own Word."?, But Cooked Them First "It isn't what you eat it's how you cook it!" That was the contention conten-tion of Grimod de la Reyniere, the famous French gourmet who died in 18:'!!, and to prove it he once literally ate his own words. lie took a copy of his own book, "A Manual of Gastronomy," cooked it, and ate itl He suffered no ill effects. Nearly 300 years ago, Theodore Reinking wrote a book which King Christian IV of Denmark held to be too democratic. The unfortunate unfortu-nate author was eventually sentenced sen-tenced cither to eat his own book or be executed. He chose to tear up his book and put the scraps in soup, which he atel |
