The Forme of Cury/Addenda

ADDENDA.

p. i. add at bottom. 'vi. 22. where Noah and the beasts are to live on the same food.'

xiv. after ingeniosa gula est, add, 'The Italians now eat many things which we think perfect carrion. Ray, Trav. p. 362. 406. The French eat frogs and snails. The Tartars feast on horse-flesh, the Chinese on dogs, and meer Savages eat every thing. Goldsmith, Hist. of the Earth, &c. II. p. 347, 348. 395. III. p. 297. IV. p. 112. 121, &c.'

xviii. lin. 1. after ninth Iliad, add, 'And Dr. Shaw writes, p. 301, that even now in the East, the greatest prince is not ashamed to fetch a lamb from his herd and kill it, whilst the princess is impatient till she hath prepared her fire and her kettle to dress it.'

Ibid. lin. 12. after heretofore add, 'we have some good families in England of the name of Cook or Coke. I know not what they may think; but we may depend upon it, they all originally sprang from real and professional cooks; and they need not be ashamed of their extraction, any more than the Butlers, Parkers, Spencers, &c.

xix. add at bottom, 'reflect on the Spanish Olio or Olla podrida, and the French fricassée.'

xxv. lin. ult. intended. add, 'See Ray, Trav. p. 283. 407. and Wright's Trav. p. 112.'