[1] If, according to Petavius and Le Clerc, the world was created in
autumn, when the fruits of the earth were both plentiful and in the
highest perfection, the first man had little occasion for much
culinary knowledge; roasting or boiling the cruder productions, with
modes of preserving those which were better ripened, seem to be all
that was necessary for him in the way of _Cury_, And even after he
was displaced from Paradise, I conceive, as many others do, he was
not permitted the use of animal food [Gen. i. 29.]; but that this was
indulged to us, by an enlargement of our charter, after the Flood,
Gen. ix, 3. But, without wading any further in the argument here, the
reader is referred to Gen. ii. 8. seq. iii. 17, seq. 23.

[Addenda: add 'vi. 22. where _Noah_ and the beasts are to live on the
same food.']
[2] Genesis xviii. xxvii. Though their best repasts, from the
politeness of the times, were called by the simple names of _Bread_,
or a _Morsel of bread_, yet they were not unacquainted with modes of
dressing flesh, boiling, roasting, baking; nor with sauce, or
seasoning, as salt and oil, and perhaps some aromatic herbs. Calmet v.
Meats and Eating, and qu. of honey and cream, ibid.
[3] Athenaus, lib. xii. cap. 3.
[4] Athenaus, lib. xii. cap. 3. et Cafaubon. See also Lister ad
Apicium, praf. p. ix. Jungerm. ad Jul. Polluccm, lib. vi. c. 10.
[5] See below. 'Tamen uterque [Torinus et Humelbergius] hac scripta
[i, e. Apicii] ad medicinam vendicarunt.' Lister, praf. p. iv. viii.
ix.
[6] Athenaaus, p. 519. 660.
[7] Priv. Life of the Romans, p. 171. Lister's Pras, p. iii, but Ter.
An, i. 1. Casaub. ad Jul. Capitolin. cap. 5.
[8] Casaub. ad Capitolin. l. c.