The Feasts Of Autolycus The Diary Of A Greedy Woman

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The Feasts of Autolycus is work by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. We are presented with a cookbook full of delicious recipes from the 19th century including different stews, soups, bakery and desserts.

"The Feasts of Autolycus" from Elizabeth Robins Pennell. American writer (1855-1936).

Gluttony is ranked with the deadly sins; it should be honoured among the cardinal virtues. It was in the Dark Ages of asceticism that contempt for it was fostered. Selfish anchorites, vowed to dried dates and lentils, or browsing Nebuchadnezzar-like upon grass, thought by their lamentable example to rob the world of its chief blessing. Cheerfully, and without a scruple, they would have sacrificed beauty and pleasure to their own superstition. If the vineyard yielded wine and the orchard fruit, if cattle were sent to pasture, and the forest abounded in game, they believed it was that men might forswear the delights thus offered. And so food came into ill repute and foolish fasting was glorified, until a healthy appetite passed for a snare of the devil, and its gratification meant eternal damnation. Poor deluded humans, ever so keen to make the least of the short span of life allotted to them!