Note 33 — AMERICAN VS. ENGLISH COOKERY

"The English system of cookery it would be impertinent for me to describe; but still, when I think of that huge round of parboiled ox-flesh, with sodden dumplings floating in a saline, greasy mixture, surrounded by carrots looking red with disgust and turnips pale with dismay, I cannot help a sort of inward shudder, and making comparisons unfavourable to English gastronomy."—Memoirs of a Stomach. Written by Himself. London, 1853.