West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-06-21
Big Eaters.

Inc eaters OF my time" wrote
Careme, in 1882, ~were the Prince de
Talleyrand, Murat, Junot, Fontanes,
the Emperor Alexander, George w.,
and the Marquis dc Cussy. Men who
know how to eat are as rare as good
cooks. Look ut the great musicians
aud physicians" he goes on, with en-
thusiasm; they are all gastronomers;
witness Rossini and Boieldieu. Brous-
sails and Joseph Roques." The last
named backed this up with his trea-
tise on Edible Mushrooms" main
tanning that doctors who make a name
-Coryisart, Broussais, and half-a-
dozen others-are epicures for their
patients sake as well as their own.
they can get convalescent to eat
when nobody else cana fact which
explains their success. Modern Lon
don, too, we are proud to say, can
boast its successful medical gourmets.
DE Cussy-it is vain to expect an au-
thorlty from him-said that / eonardo
da Vinci, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese,
Baccio Bandinelli, Guido and Raphael,
were all noted gourmands-a fact which
has not yet, perhaps, had its we ght in
estimating the naive abstinence of the
Raphaelites, who might even have
been vegetarians almost to man, to
Judge from the type of their landscape
gardening. None of the foregoing
great men had the beatitude of diving
at table like some of the smaller fry.
DR.. Gastaldy, man with wit and q
palate so often met with in the IL
mdnGch DIES Commands, died with
champagne-glas in his hand and n Joke
In his mouth, Grimod de la Reyniere's
great-grandfather's death was exactly
llke-in fit of laughter, his lips still
wet with Ay. Here is fact for Mr..
Cation: financial instincts, too. were
hereditary in this family of farmers
general of the revenue
Napoleon, as all tho world knows,
ate very plain food. and little of it,
though always with hunger and rapid
ly. A little claret was all he drank;
a single glass of Madeira would flush
his whole countenance. He was neither
an eater nor Judge of eating, wrote
Careme, but he was grateful twas hep
to Nj. de Talleyrand for the style in
which no lived. He differed widely
from that poor Stanislas of Poland,
who fondly studied onion soup in the
inn kitchen at Chalons. Napoleon had
a strange theory about his bile. There
is no personal defect that n man can.
not get himself to be vain of, for ono
reason or another.
Don't you know" said he to the
Comte de Segur, that every man that's
worth anything is bilious? lis the
hidden fire. by the help of its excite
ment see clear in difficult junctures.
1t wins me my battlel" Careme him
self ate sparingly and drank nothing
sort of Moses # the promised land
by choice.
Tho skeleton Paganini was an APP
palling glutton, being only beaten IN
that by Cambaceres. Such men should
be objects of pity alone, like the great
Athenian chef, Archetrastes, who ate
enormously and digested with ex-
traordinary rapidity. 1t could not
have been assimilation, for, according
to Polybius, he looked as If the wind
would blow him away, and one could
almost see daylight through him.
There is one dear old story that al
ways comes up in talk about great
eaters; it has been told OF all sorts of
guzzlers, from city alderman to the
IN sc OF appeal at Avignon, under
the dncieB regime. "And then. sir.
we topped up with gorgeous turkey,
a tirst-chop bird-never tasted
iuicier-melt in the mediterranean
with truilies TO the eyes-bouduet is
no word for it-left nothing but the
bones" How many we're ouPD
@Two" What only two?" ayes.
Two. Why not? The turkey and
uyselfi' London SATURDAY ReUtep.