Barbarism Quotes
“As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.” Isabella Beeton (1836-1865) The Book of Household Management (1861)
Butter is "the most delicate of foods among barbarous nations, and one which distinguishes the wealthy from the multitude at large." Pliny
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