THE FOOD OF A LIFETIME.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1787, 24 September 1874, Page 2

THE FOOD OF A LIFETIME.

M. Soyer, cook of the Itefomi Club, was a person of considerable a good deal above ordinary, artists in liis peculiar linQ. In-o;ie of his bo ■.,'. s, the "Modern Housewife,"-he..... eute'jvv into ...a calculation as to hovv much foo.l an epicure of 70 years of ago has <?o!ium<?d. This imaginary epicure, who hiy .•s'jjiposcd t» be a wealthy personage, is placed by him on Pi'iuiros!? Hill at ten 1 ■ ycnVs old, ni told to look around him at die vast assemblage of animals and other objects he will, in the course of a lifetime, send down his threat— the sight of which is of course described as startling. Among other things he is to devour 30.'.oxen, 200 shnep 100 calves, 200 lambs, 50(pigs,I2S00 fowls, 300 turkeys, 263 pgeons, 120 turbot, 3.40 salmon, \ 30,000 oysJci-.s, 5475 pounds weight of vegetables '"2&%5, pound of butter, 25,000 eggs and.4^ toiiiM bread, besides fruit, 'sweetmeats, &,c, and 49 hogsheads of wine, 584 gallons,of spirits, and about 3000 gallons of t?a and coffee^ This is a mere outline of what ivc are told is destined to be consumed. To show there is no exaggeration, Sroyer assuresnis that he had from experience niulo up a scale of food for the day for «/'.period of sixty years, and it amounts to 33jr tons weight of meat, farinaceous food andvegetables, &c. One is not prepared to despise the calculations of so clever an expert. All we can say is, that the pic* ture he presents is very suggestive.; That he has not exaggerated in at least one particular, lam prepared to verify. A gentleman of my acquaintance has for the last fifty years eaten, every morning, two eggsj to breakfast —making 730 per annum, or total for the whole period of 36,500 eggs. This goes considerably beyond Soyer.— Chamber's Journal.