# The curiosities of food Author: Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund), 1814-1897 Genre: Category: Travel Writing Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71509 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+curiosities+of+food+Simmonds&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The sustentation of the body, and the repairing of its waste by an adequate supply of wholesome and nutritious daily food, is a subject of general importance, and necessarily occupies a large share of attention. But all nations have not the advantages of skilful cattle-breeders, slaughter-houses, well-supplied meat and poultry markets, and butchers’ shops graced with all the tempting joints of beef, mutton, and pork, which gladden the eyes of an Englishman, and keep up his stamina for labour. The traveller, the settler, and the savage, must be content to put up with what they can most readily obtain, and to avail themselves of many an unusual article of food, which would be rejected under... ## Chapters - [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/14/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/18/index.md) - [Part 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/27/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/19/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/13/index.md) - [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/23/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/12/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/15/index.md) - [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/20/index.md) - [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/21/index.md) - [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/22/index.md) - [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/16/index.md) - [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/24/index.md) - [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/25/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/26/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/17/index.md) - [Part 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-curiosities-of-food-71509/chapters/28/index.md)