But he would eat a beefsteak fried.
"Jaundiced he lived, and died of spleen,
And some kept green his memory then—
Called him 'reformer,' who had been
The most intemperate of men."
On more catholic lines is the gastronomic experience of a distinguished Baptist doctor of divinity of western New York, who, though always temperate, still believes in the sentiment of the grace that was once uttered by an English Episcopal clergyman: "God hath given us all things richly to enjoy; let us enjoy them." The learned divine in his younger days was one of a party of four who were concluding a long sojourn abroad, and ere leaving Paris he was desirous of testing the much-vaunted cuisine of the "Trois Frères Provençeaux." His suggestion that the appetising odours which greeted the passer-by from without be verified from within having met with immediate approval, the officier de bouche of the famous restaurant was interviewed and a dinner arranged for the following evening.
LA CONTENANCE DE LA TABLE
Facsimile of title-page, early part of sixteenth century
"Enfant tu ne dois charger