The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-19
NOTED EPICURES.
Likes and Antipathies of Great Men
For Things Edible and Potable.
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AS everything relating to great men
IS interesting it is not strange that so
much has been published about their
tastes regarding things edible and pota-
Die. Possessing stronger uatures-in-
teuser likes and NATURALIZATION most
other men, 10 is not strange that they
have generally been exceedingly fond
of particular dishes. Aristotle the Ia
Their of philosophy. who dominated the
intellectual werld for 1000 years. was
an exception. He lived SO frugaIly that
hc might almost De said 90 have feast
ed on fancy. He speaks of himself
somewhere as a ht person 90 have lived
ln the world when men fed on acOrns.
A noted French lady said she would
commit a baseness for The sake of ;ried
potatoes. A similar avOWal with regard
10 some other pet dish might be made
truthtully by more than one disciple of
Epicurus.
Itis well known that the English king
who died Of a surfeit of lampreys was
one of the foremost statesmen and
warriors of his age, besides being a
scholar Alexander Pope. who was an
epicure would DE abed for days at Lord
Bolngbr0ke's unless he was told that
there were stewed Iampreys for dinner.
when he would arise instantly and hur-
~ do yu to the table. His host the
brilliant orator and politician. was tem-
perate at the table. but an Over-rOasted
leg of mutton would strangely ruffle his
temper When BOungbrOke, inviting
the cynical Swift to dinner. told of the
tempting dishes that would be set be-
fore him. the dean replied. "A plague
on your bill of fare. Show we your bin
of company
DR.. Johnson had keen relish for a
les of mutton and for "a veal pie with
plums. AT my Aunt Fields" he once
said u ate so much Of a leg of NUT
ton that she used 20 talk of it," Being
once treated 90 a dish of new honey
and cl0uted cream. he ate so VOraciOus-
ly that his entertainer was alarmed.
Dryden. declining. in $685. an invitation
from a lady TO an attractive supper
wrote. "If beesars might be ChOOsers.
a chino Of honest bacon would please
my appetite more than all the marrow
puddlngs, for i Ike them better plain,
having a very vulgar stomach The
great Greek scholar. DIT. Parr avOWeI
that he had great love for "hot boiled
Holsters with o. prOfuslOn Of shrimp
sauce" Byron was inOriiuately fond
of bacon and eggs. iu which he would
indulge in spite of what he knew would
be the Inevitable result-an attack Of
indigestion Another and a harmless
passion of the poet was that for soda
water. on which and dry biscuits he NJ
one time almost exclusively subsisted
In this ha was rivaled by the famous
BechOrd of FOnthiu abbey, the mill
honaire author who during the days
and nights Of continuous work In which
DE dashed of his "Vathek'-an eastern
tale Go which Byron said that "even
Rasselas must bow -subslsted mainly
ON the same gaseous fluid
Like Byron. Leigh Hunt would treat
himself at late suppers % the most iu-
disesdble foods though he had repeat
edly suffered from them-"uightmar
producing things" as he himself con-
tessed, "that had nea-ly killed him."
ArlOsto had reVenous appetite Cor
turnips Goethe had am immense APP
petite and ate more than most men
even on days when he complained of
not being hungry Hc took no refresh
ment however. until . o'clock EXCEPT a
cup OF chocolate at ~. OF wine he took
two or three bottles daily. Handel who
was a large bulky man, ate enormous
~ and when he dined al a tavern ale
ways ordered dinner Tor three when
told that the dinner would be ready as
soon as the company should arrive. DE
would exclaim. Den priug up de din
uer nrcstissimo, i am de company"
Beethoven. who I'm general cared little
for the pleasures of the table. set was
very f8sudious and even whimsical re-
eardinr bis food. soup was bis fav0rite
dish. but t was hard to make IL so as
to please him. He told servant who