Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884. Excerpt: ... SALT AND OTHER CONDIMENTS. PART I. CHAPTER I. CONDIMENTS IN GENERAL--SALT IN PARTICULAR. IT has been noted in the Introduction to this Handbook that it is difficult to define the exact meaning of the word "condiment," and that authorities differ somewhat as to the character and number of articles which the term should cover, some using it in a comprehensive, and others in a more restricted sense. For the purpose of the earlier part of this chapter let us take it in its wider meaning as signifying any substances used for the " flavouring" of food, and not as food itself. Logicians have defined man as "an animal that cooks its food;" and it has generally been held that this "difference" of cooking distinguishes him fairly and logically from all other animals. But does it? Yes--at the present period of his existence: but did he always cook his food? It may be open to doubt whether he did so. If we take the Bible record (Gen. i. 29-30) we find something more than a suggestion that man in the earlier period of his existence was a vegetarian. Moreover, the formal commission to man to use the vegetable world for food was given to all other animals, and therefore probably he would not need to cook his food any more than they would. In the further commission to man after the flood (Gen. ix. 3.) " every moving thing that hath life" was given him as "meat," and allusion is made to the "green herb" given him before. Now if man was only a vegetarian before the flood, and did not cook his H. 14- B vegetable food, the question may be asked whether he used condiments of any kind with it. A large or at least a certain portion of his vegetable food would necessarily be somewhat insipid, and he would almost naturally seek for something wherewith to flavour it. Salt in some ...
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