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amongſt the Patriarchs, as found in the Bible[1], I ſhall turn myſelf immediately, and without further preamble, to a few curſory obſervations reſpecting the Greeks, Romans, Britons, and thoſe other nations, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, with whom the people of this nation are more cloſely connected.

The Greeks probably derived ſomething of their ſkill from the Eaſt, (from the Lydians principally, whoſe cooks are much celebrated,[2]) and ſomething from Egypt. A few hints concerning Cookery may be collected from Homer, Ariſtophanes, Ariſtotle, &c. but afterwards they poſſeſſed many authors on the ſubject, as may be ſeen in Athenæus[3]. And as Diætetics were eſteemed a branch of the ſtudy of medicine, as alſo they were afterwards[4], ſo many of those authors were Phyſicians; and the Cook was undoubtedly a character of high reputation at Athens[5].

  1. ↑ Geneſis xviii. xxvii. Though their beſt repaſts, from the politeneſs of the times, were called by the ſimple names of Bread, or a Morſel of bread, yet they were not unacquainted with modes of dreſſing fleſh, boiling, roaſting, baking; nor with ſauce, or ſeaſoning, as ſalt and oil, and perhaps ſome aromatic herbs. Calmet v. Meats and Eating. and qu. of honey and cream. ibid.
  2. ↑ Athenæus, lib. xii. cap. 3.
  3. ↑ Athenæus, lib. xii. cap. 3. et Caſaubon. See alſo Liſter ad Apicium, præf. p. ix. Jungerm. ad Jul. Pollucem, lib. vi. c. 10.
  4. ↑ See below. 'Tamen uterque [Torinus et Humelbergius] hæc ſcripta [i.e. Apicii] ad medicinam vendicarunt.' Liſter, præf. p. iv. viii. ix.
  5. ↑ Athenæus, p. 519. 660.

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