The curiosities of food

OR THE
DAINTIES AND DELICACIES OF DIFFERENT NATIONS
OBTAINED FROM THE
ANIMAL KINGDOM.
PETER LUND SIMMONDS, F.R.G.S., F.S.S.,
AUTHOR OF “A DICTIONARY OF TRADE PRODUCTS,” “THE COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM,” ETC., ETC.
Cassius. Will you dine with me to-morrow? Casca. Ay, if I be alive, and your mind hold, and your dinner worth the eating.
Julius Cæsar.
Horatio. O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! Hamlet. And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet, Act 1, scene 5.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.