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It was not necessary that the science of culinary chemistry 

 should be brought into action to provoke an artificial appetite in 

 this individual: he was a glutton de facto. Nature made him 

 such: and nothing but the strongest food could satisfy his inor- 

 dinate cravings. 



In fine, with the sentiments of Kitchener, and in the words of 

 Accum, "the pleasures of the table have always been highly ap- 

 preciated and sedulously cultivated among civilized people of every 

 age and nation ; and, in spite of the stoic, it must be admitted that 

 they are the first which we enjoy, the last we abandon, and those 

 of which we most frequently partake." 



" Cookery is the soul of festivity, at all times and in all ages. 

 How many marriages have been the consequence of meeting at 

 dinner! How much good fortune has been the result of a good 

 supper ! At what moment of our existence are we happier than 

 at table? There hatred and animosity are lulled to sleep, and 

 pleasure alone reigns." These are the words, and such are the 

 sentiments, of the illustrious Louis Eustache Ude, than whom no 

 more accomplished maitre de cuisine has ever lived. 



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