Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-11-14
Commands and Commanding.

| SO NOi, ONCh Ill SlIldll HllIGtIs, uO IHt
two nations differ. The dictionary Of
the Academy defines Gourmand, as DR.
johnson also, does, as synonymous with
glutton. In the Encyclepedia german
dizing is translated as "a demoralized
love Of good cheers" but the Abbe Ro-
baud, Ill his synonyms, is more favorable
to gormands, describing them as "per-
SONS who love to eat and make good
cheer" They must eat without seIec-
tlon:: Below the judicious and self-re-
stralnng epicure, the sensible and toler-
ant able places four classes Of people
First, tho Frland-the person who likes
all sorts OF dainties, Especially sweet
meats and dessert. The Goinfre is a
monster who has an appetite SO brutal
that he swallows with ravening mouth
every thing he comes near; he cats and
eats for the sake OF eating. Next ap-
pears the Goulu, (the shark), the wretch
who snatches with avidity, swallows
rather than eats, and gobbles rather than
chews. Last OF all comes this very dis
creditable creature, the Glutton, who
eats with an audible and disagrceable
noise, and with such voracity that one
morsel scarcely waits for another, and all
disappears before him absorbed as it were
in bottomless abyss. Such are the sub
tleties OF the highly refined language of
our neighbors. For all these cpithets of
cpicure, alderman, greyhound, wolf. We
are obliged, indeed, to borrow from the
French the two words Gourmand and
Gourmet. BY the FIRST, meaning those
who eat largely, without much regard
to quality; by the second those who
study and appreciate the higher branches
of cooking.
A friend Of Driekopf's has ascerta;ned
after twenty years experiments, that it
takes thirty-two movements of,the upper
and lower jaws to cut and grind morscl
of meat to allow it to be safely swal-
lowed. The age and strength of the per-
son, and the qualities of the motors and
incisors, are also, OF course to be taken
into account, which drives one to algebra
and Vulgar fractions; but the rule is
good general one, and may be trusted to.
This is philosophy indeed and yet
man may use his teeth very well with
ont knowing a word of it. 1t would not
have helped that notorious cater, the
Able dc Liongcac, who as the legend in
Paris restaurants goes would often for
wager ca: thirty-six dozens of small pates.
The abbe was, moreover, little fragile
looking man, who looked as if jelly
would not melt III his mouth.
One of tho most heagtless things ever
done was trick once played OH Pope,
the epecurean actor A wicked friend
asked him to dine off small turbot and
u boiled aitchbone of beef apologizing for
the humble fare with the usual feigned
humility of friends. .-......
"Why, its the very thing like" said
Pope in his reply, referring to the aitch-
bone. 81 will come, my son, with ill the
pleasure in life." -''' -..
He came, he saw, he ate; ate till he
grew nearer the table and could eat no
more. He had just laid down his knife
and fork, like soldier tired Of wars
alarms, when q bell was rung, and in
came u smoking haunch of yenison.
Pope saw the trick at once; he cast
look OF bitter reproach upon his friend,
tritled with large slice, Then again drop
ped his now utterly useless weapons,
and burst into hyslerical understandable
tears. .:r....
"a friend of twenty years standing"
he sobbed, and TO be deceived ip this
manner J" .t.
A dinner was given TO Lord Chester
field, Oh his quitting the office of Master
ot the Buckhounds, 1t the Clarendon.
Thirty persons sat down. 1t was order
cd by Count fOrsay, an cpicure Of the
highest taste, and the price was SIX
gulneas head. A dinner got up ut the
Albion, under the auspices OF Sir William
Curtis, cost the party between thirty
and forty pounds apiece; but then sps-
clal messengers had been sent to West
plalia to Glucose hams. Lord Southamp-
ton once gave dinner At the Albion ut
ten gulneas head. , l,....-...e 5.... 8.
OF the modern epicures Cambaceres,
Second Consul under the Empire, and
atterward Napoleon's faithful Chancellor,
was tue most pre-eminent. This excel
Lent minister was as toud of business as
he was fond OF good eating for with all
his Incidence aud epicureanism, he work
ell hard enough to satisfy even Bona
partc. On one occasion ut is said when
the fate of the Duke d d'Enghien WAS dis
cussing} Cambaccres was detained very
late; as the hour of dinner approached,
the minister betrayed unmistakable, and
indeed irrepressiblc, symptoms Of lmp;-
tience, anxiety and resLlessnesS. AT last,
unable TO control himself, he sat down at
all escritoir i'll the councilroom and wrote
Il note, which be called gentlenIan-nsher
to carry. Napoleon smlled, and nodded
to an ald-decamp to intercept the lm-
portant dispatch. When it was brought
him Cambaceres turned red and begged
like chidden school-boy, that his notes
ON small domestic matters might not be
read aloud. Napoleon, however, had a
will, aud he persisted 1t WAS billet
doux to tho cook, containing only these
impressive words: + e.rD '-.- s''--
Preserve the Ell trements; the roasts are io7t
When Napoleon was pleased with ior-
eign ambassadors, he used to send them,
for a treat, to g Go and dine with Gam
baceres.'' The Emperor was onee very
anory with the Cour deso Complies fol
disalIowing an item of three hundred
f..,cs for trout, charged to Cambaceres