New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-10-07

The American savages dev0ured half cooked game
and Jumps of boiled dough Of the consistency OF can
non ball. and their race disappeared before men VINO
ate yeast bread and roast beet The Greeks couiu
serve pig roasted on one side, boiled on the o'her
and stuffed with spiced thrushes and ortolahs snu
Greece went down before the sturdy Slsvi
But surely between AristoIenes parican ana poe'''
ter wasting the rolling months in VAN eno'"
to cure hams which should be called Ars'oAoni"n'
Angelina dissolved in tears because she cannot cooA
steak there il q golden mean OF effort Anu po'"eo"
tho shining banouets of that elder Athenah Jay "ho
music. and sculpture, and painting ana uhi'o'ns
crowned the feast with all voluptuous ana sehsuous
DELIGHT and tho bare table of the many moderhs
who hold the preparation and setting iorth oil mems " oc
miserable bondage to the flesh there happy meuuui
q, elegance which might woo poets and philosophers
again 70 sng their gayest ances to utter their wses'
anhorisrns Mt tho board where Aspasa, IN hoops ana
aounees dispenses tea instead Of flashing wine, ana
saonbo kinded by the warmth and light, and quick
electric atmosphere inaudiby murmurs to herself the
passionate song which will break on half million ears
in the next coming Of the Atlantic.
If Rome had ever the charming secret, she lost IT.
and If Athens was fnical and luxurious the Seven.
Killed City grew glutonous and sensual. Remember,
Edwin when you become unpleasant over the grocers
book and the butchers bas is the nature OF husbands
in the third year after marriage and thereafter VII the
Last Great Account divorces them from all lesser ones
that there have been astronomical bunders ana
extravagances The kitchen expenditure OF Vitellas.
for instance amounted in four months TO the apprecia
bic sum OF twenty-five millions; and to prove the supe
rory of man over the brues that perish he composed
a dish which cost him forty thousand dollars IL was
largely compounded Of nightingaes tongues Whether'
when the pie was opened, they all began to Sng' ISM
this shameful dish to set before King. history neg
ects to tell. Domitian, who, among other amaple
eccenrices used cut off the head OF any one having
the shamelessness TO disagree with him. "a thorough
and satisfactory method of closing the argument, once
summoned his Senator's at dead OF night to advise MN
as TO the cooking Of a iurbot untimely arrived from
Ischia Congress aud our Military Commissions would
seem TO have studied the precedent. Geta had twenty
six courses in his suppers. to make memor"oie inc
alphabet and provo his devotion to the advancement OF
letters Heogabaus supped on the brains OF Elk hund
red tlrushes but he needed compensation for the sin
of his sponsors in baptism He supported tho fagues
Of dining by reclining on couches covered with cloth OF
gold beneath scented lamps in atmosphere sotened
by the plashng OF perfumed fountains.
The culinary utensils Of these ascetcs were OF bronze
richly plated with silver. The saucepans OF painted
rorc claim and Of silver. The kitchen floors were OF
costly mar and the walls Of woods covered with
pictures. The Empire fell into mad worship OF the
palate and the misuscd stomach saw all the members
at war with It, and each other The consequence was
that Alarie the yiseoh down from the North one
Summer morning and put Rome and all the Romans IN
his pocket.
After this, refined cookery suffered undeserved OBJ
oquy and, with other prosecuted fugtiyes found the
right of sanctuary only in tho monaseres rive oen'
turies later Italy sought on: her neglected art and en-
th.cned it fifty in Milan Genoa and Florence whence
in the splendid train of Catherine de Medic Preached
France, its shrine. Its altar and its homo.
| Columbus brave Of heart and tireess OF purpose,
opened higher existence to cookery and enriched II
with materials The East Indies brought nutmeg
and cinnamon spices and Cloves with the result which
the nursery rhyme still further discloses. The Cru
saders beside the hard knocks and doubtful morals
which they brought back from their pilgrimage bore
also knowledge Of Oriental luxury which they pro-
ceeded to naturalize In the reign Of Elizabeth the
kitchens Of the nobility lavish If not as fine, as
their Roman predecessors The cooks were classical
S scholars and queer NEUROLOGICAL horrors percbed on
the board The cook OF Cardinal Wolsey "weut daily
in velvet or in satin. with q chaine Of gould"
Tie sadfaced Puritan. rejecting every fashion Of the
reckless cavalier dsdained his dainty dishes wherein
the devil supposed to lurk seeking entrance into
the ungodly. Bountful New England, however poured
into the barns of his descendants such store OF yegets
Bile wealth. that the very instinct Of economy pervading
the breasts OF the thrifty wives, mado them cooks
Still the muufcence fthe ,eeming SOIL tho abundance
Of meats made them careless Of saving and unfruitui
in expedent Sarah country bred. rosy Of cheek and
e stout Of muscle might hope TO become tidy house
keeper and to understand tho routine Of common cook
ery But the higher mysteries the exquisite chemistry
10 which the cooking stove evolves. the incoming Of nj
trogen carbon, and hydrogen which being organized
% call themselves roast beef and bread and water the
need Of BRAIN aud nerve, and matchmaking Of this
she knows Housework is dreary affair to be plodded
VI through as the penalty of Ewes transgression.
And alas for Angelina what chance has che to learn
that the great forces Of the earth at work spread
"A her table and all the elves and idges called gases
and salts in the learned books would spring TO 10 her
!, bidding if she but knew their servceable zeaf She
a had time before marriage. She had teschcr after
So Edwin and she, who sailed gaily cut matrmo
NAL in their painted shaop toss mserably for
year or two and find SAFE though dreary shelter at
q In the anchorage Of boarding. house.
"They order these things better in France" Louis
Fourteenth establishing Versailles and literary soce-
ties and scientific bodies and art associations made
fashionable the petite cuisine which yet fouriShes in
immortal youth. Louis Fifteenth, degenerate great
grandson and heir. dropped from his eneryate right
Land oil the beapedup spendors Of conquest which bis
martial ancestor had crowded therein but held close in
his left the refined art Of cookery And France today
overcrowded, only able to feed her swarmng people
by the most careful thrift and the devices
has the only theory and practice of that most comfort
ing Of systems. which deserves to be studied and fol-