... the seventeenth century. The general rule of vegetable supremacy seemed to be re-asserting itself with the increase in population in Europe up to at least the middle of the nineteenth century.7 Then and only then, scientific stock-raising and massive arrivals of meat from America, salted and then frozen, enabled it to break its fast. We can risk the generalization that there ... civilizations. There was, as we have said, no sophisticated cooking in Europe before the fifteenth century. The reader must not let himself be dazzled by feasts like those given by the ostentatious court of the ...

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