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amongft the Patriarchs, as found in the Bible b , I flhall turn myfelf immediately, and without further preamble, to a few curfory obfervations refpecling the Greeks, P».omans, Britons, and thofe other na- tions, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, with whom the people of this nation are more clofely connected.
The Greeks probably derived fomething of their fkill from the Eaft, (from the Lydians principally, whofe cooks are much celebrated, c ) and fomething from Egypt. A few hints concerning Cookery may be collefted from Homer, Ariflophanes, Ariftotle, &c. but afterwards they poflefled many authors on the fubjedt, as may be feen in Athenmus d . And as Dicetetics were efteemed a branch of the ftudy of me- dicine, as alfo they were afterwards', fo many of thofe authors were Phyficians; and the Cook was undoubtedly a character of high reputation at Athens f .
b GeneCs xviii. xxvii. Though their bell rep a ft s, from the po- litenefs of the times, were called by the fimple names of Bread, or a Morfel of Iread, yet they were not unacquainted with modes ot drefling flefh, boiling, roa fling, baking; nor with fauce, or fea- foning, as fait and oil, and perhaps fome aromatic herbs. Cal- mer v. Meats and Eating, and qu. of honey and cream, ibid.
c Athenseus, lib. xii. cap. 3.
d Athenasus, lib. xii. cap. 3. et Cafaubon. See alfo Lifter ad Apicium, praf. p. ix. Jungerm. ad Jul. Pollucem, lib. vi. c. 10.
e bee below. ‘ Tamen uterquc [Torinus et Humelbergius] hate feripta [i. e. Apicii] ad rjiedicinam vendicarunt.’ Lifter, prsef. p. iv. viii. ix.
f Athenasus, p. £19. 66 o.
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