The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-17


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The Cincinnati Commercial pre-
sents its readers with pleasing arti-
Gle on, the gastatory passion, telling
them how some Of the great men OF
history have lived. We read: " The
word gastronomy, " hich possesses all
tho attributes of good living in their
perfection, is scarcely half a century
old, and ia, of course, due to the
French, who compounded 1t, with
their usual skill in adaptation, from
the Greek. From the indiscriminate
and vulgar gluttony of Vitellius and
Heliogabalus, those old h eathens OF
the Decline and Fall, to the refined
and delicate tastc theof epicurian Luz
cullus, there is a wide interval. Yet
no human being is wholly without in
terest i'm the scince of gastronomy,
since there is none bnt must cat to
live. Those who reverse the rule,
= and live only to cat, are not gour-
msnds in the true fense, and lose the
test of pleasr, in the everlasting OF
the palate. One of the most refined
Sust puiAoEOpHiS Va ulOuSih "aA'D.
.7mcnts with pathetic earncstness the
dire necessities that compel us all to
pay tribute to tho cupboard, in the
declaration, " can get rid Of every
thing but this perpetual stomach; he
must eat, and l cannot IN Ike him re-
Specialize" tf
, The most graphic and thoughtful of
modern historians. far from dlspising
such trifies as the traits and folbles of
: great men, dwclls upon all such items
with interest, as among the best rev
Citations of character. When we rea d
of the reformer Luther, that he was
of full habits, and hearty eater, that
he loved Rhine wine and Torgan
beer, we get al insight into the life
and spirits of the man that is worth
whole volumes in folio of controver-
sial theology. sE
Charlamagne, the first Western enl-
peror, who died in Sl4, although a
very frugal liver, was extremely fond
of game. On ordinary occasions,
writes Capefgne, there were but four
plates on his dinner-table, besides a
piece of game that the hunters brought
to the emperor, ready spitted, since
they know this was his favorite meat.
The historian adds that this prince
used rarely to drink more than three
times at his repast.
Augustus Cesar was fond of brown
bread, little fish, cheese, and of new
cows milk, and fresh figs. Scutonius
relates that he drank habitually three
81 III xx-hsch cInyUc him
TO have been of much more sober and
simple tastes than most of his success
sors. Hnf r..
= Apicius, the celebrated Roman
gourmand, whose name has finished
q proyerbial phrase to the literature
of dietetics, was passionately fond of
Holsters. Small blame to him for
that, since this is the delicious of shell
fish, next to the oyster, which must
ever bear away the palm. Having
heard that the coast of Africa yielded
Holsters large and more delicate than
the Italian, Apicious Immediately
& chartered vessel and set sail to as
certain the fact, and bear home the
prizes across the Mediterranean. A
rich old fellow was this Apicius,
q who spent on his table 100,Q00,0O0
sesterces, (about 100000 of our mo-
, ney,) and one fine day, having cast up
his accounts, and found that if his
debts were paid he should have left
but 100000 sesterces, (S50O, 000,1 he
quietly swallowed poison through fear
of dying of hunger. ~
Our Latin poet, Martial, who died
in the year los of our era, had spe-
cial taste for the thrush and the hare,
q preference which he himself de-
ciared in this epigram: .g,5g'F.--a
!" Inter ayes tardus, 81 quis. mo judice certet,
Ihtsr bankruptcies gloria prima lepus."
Tho Emperor Alexander Seyerus,
was 80 fond of rabbits that, according
10 his biographcr, Lampridius, he ate
one at evory meal.
Frederick, emperor Of Germany,
who died i'm 1S43, was madly in love
with melons, and his immoderate pas
sion for them finally carried him to
the tomb, as the consequence of an
indigestion. The same accident, ard
from precisely the same cause, put an
end to the career of the Emperor Max
imillian H., of Germany. g -
Tasso, the Italian poet, had q mark
cd prediction for sugared dishes,
we'll baked i'm the oven, and for all
kinds of fruits and confectionery. He
was so fond Of sugar that he always
put 1t in his salad.
Henry ", of France, had pas
sionate fondness for melons and oys-
tors. He used to eat immediately
of both, but 1t would appear that the
wine of Arbois, of which he made q
great use, saved him from the indiges-
tion to which the great indulgence in
snch ailments exposed him.
Tho French Marshal, Hocquincourt,
who died in 1853, had a particular
pcnchant for sleeps tails, and kept all
his life cook who knew how to pre-
pare q savory dish of this caudal NUT
ton, which the marshal dispensed to
his officers to put them i'm good sto-
mach for battle. Its .-H
Charles NIL, King of Sweden, was
certainly not difficult eater, since
Voltaire records that slice of bread
and butter was his supreme choice in
matters of diet. -a r~
Orcbillon. fills, the French novelist,
who died in 1777, was an insatiate de-
vourer of oysters.
-'f A certain English gentleman, NAM
ed Rogerson, gave great preference to
ortolans-at least the final act of his
life seems to prove this. We are as
sured that this disciple of Apicius
expended, within the space of nine
months, the almost Incredible sum of
fl5O,OOC sterling upon his table and
culinary experiments. In fact, his
whole fortune had been thus swal-
lowed up; and, seeing himself reduc-
ed to want, he employed guinea, the
last that remained TO him out of his
large fortuue, to the preparation of
an ortolan, his favorite meat Then,
having tasted with all the delectation
a of . consummate epicure this ultimate
dish, he quietly fell back and blew his
brains out.
Voltaire was cxtravagantly fond of
coffee. which he drank to excess, AZ
DIR. johnson did tea. The s9 Ec n oa
seterisIiS i, who almost lived upon
Schiller, the great German poet, who
died in 1906, was so extremely fond
Of ham, that he ate it nearly every
day and, Notwithstanding this re-
markable taste. he drank but sparing-
ly.
Frederick the Great, of Prussia, had
q notc hln pradilacf;op for n d;ch no llod