Ainsworth's Magazine

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: citizens of London, who shall now seriously ponder over the wonders unfolded in Soyer's Pantropheon, will be filled with envy at the triumphs of their brethren of the Eternal City. They will feel that they have as yet never ventured beyond the mere threshold of the true empire of gastronomy. Secrets of art...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: citizens of London, who shall now seriously ponder over the wonders unfolded in Soyer's Pantropheon, will be filled with envy at the triumphs of their brethren of the Eternal City. They will feel that they have as yet never ventured beyond the mere threshold of the true empire of gastronomy. Secrets of art and resources of nature never dreamt of by them were familiar as household things to their Roman civic predecessors. May not sea-wolves be dragged out of the fetid mud of the Thames? Their flavour might, from certain circumstances peculiarly in favour of the latter river, be better than those of the Tiber How much further do our colonies, our commerce, our adventurous travellers go, than was ever attempted by Imperial Rome. Ought we not to surpass them, then, in our gastronomic resources ? Shame to the aldermanic spirit It is the true character of genius ever to aspire to new and great things?to invent, create, make conquests?none so admirable as those of tiie kitchen They are pacific, domestic, and sensual. What triumphs remain yet to be made, what new conquests still to be effected Soyer's work will, by its suggestive character, arouse the gastronomic ambition of unborn sages, and help to pave the way to the downfal of untold nations. What a sly gift to make by one who designed the same results to Great Britain that ensued to Rome, as an immediate and undoubted result of its extravagance, sensuality, and gluttony?its decline and fall THE SEVEN SISTERS OF TOTTENHAM. FROM THE CHEERYDOWN MSS. I. At the end of Page Green stands a remarkable tuft of elm-trees, called the Seven Sisters.?R. Dyson's History of Tottenham. A May morning a beautiful time: when the early breezes give freshness and fragrance; when birds carol, insects hum; when the cattle come up...