" DAINTIES FOP LADIES."
J The emperor Tiberius looked upon parsnips as a rare treat. They were grown along the Rhine, and slaves were sent afoot, over the long stretches of wilderness to bring them to the Emper- ' or's table. 5 Tiberius himself has told of the 1 "enormous cost"' with which he ob- ' tained "this most delectable dish." - At the time carrots were being used * chiefly as plumage for the head-dress * of court ladies, peas were making their [appearance in England upon the tables ;!of the noble in birth. But they were 1 leaten mostly by women. At that time, ''apparently, food might be masculine, lor it might be feminine. What was 1 food for the goose was taboo lor the 1 gander. Peas were extremely rare during the 1 first years of Queen Elizabeth's reigti and were seldom seen except when j brought to England from Holland, j They came so far and they cost so j much—that they were regarded aa ; dainties for ladiea. * j
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 295, 14 December 1938, Page 9
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