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CONTENTS.
| Page. | |
| "In the beginning"—The coming of the nations | [3] |
| Assyria and the other kingdoms of the "tawny men" | [9] |
| Egypt and the Egyptians | [13] |
| The "vegetable kingdom" of Ancient Egypt | [25] |
| Greece before the age of luxury | [30] |
| Rome in the days of her greatest prosperity | [39] |
| The ancient Jews | [49] |
| The Chinese | [60] |
IN THE BEGINNING.
The influence exerted by different foods over the physical and mental faculties of mankind is so marked as to verify the famous pun of the philosophic Feuerbach, "Der Mensch ist was er isst" (Man is what he eats). The advance of civilization has always been accompanied by an increased knowledge of culinary matters, until cooking has become a science and its various forms great in number. So in tracing back the history of foods, culinary utensils and their uses, we of necessity trace back the history of the world.
It is of course impossible at this late date to determine what was the first food of primeval man; ignorant as we are of even the approximate date of his first appearance and of the manner and means of that appearance.