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The bull)- beef 07 years old, recovered ffoin the stores left iu tho Arctic by the Parry expedition in 18&3, vbicii was recently sampled at JtAuil a.n<J declared "sweet afati good/' is fresh jneot compared with the steaks on which tuint) heroic .Russian scientists feaMcd a few years ago. They were cut from the body of a prehistoric mammoth dirtcovered iu the great Arctic refrigerator which must haVe ended his career, on tho mo6t conservative estimate, Iuu.OUU years before it provided tho banquet. Another remarkable menu was served Up at a dinner givca by a Uelgian antiquary about the same time, which contained apples recoveied from tho ruins of Pompeii, wine found in a nault in the rity of Corinth ,nnd bread made fro in wheat uhich lulil been in an Egyptian pyramid for over iftOO years. ' '
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17402, 13 March 1922, Page 4
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