Note 3 — Chapter III · THE CICADA: THE TRANSFORMATION
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Are the ancient culinary reputation and that appetizing epithet, suavissimas gustu, well-deserved? We have an excellent opportunity: let us profit by it and restore to honour, if the occasion warrant it, the dish extolled by Aristotle. Rondelet,3 Rabelais’ erudite friend, gloried in having rediscovered garum, the famous sauce made from the entrails of rotten fish. Would it not be a meritorious work to give the epicures their tettigometræ again?