Ebook {Epub PDF} Acetaria: A Discourse Of Sallets by John Evelyn

Acetaria: John Evelyn’s homage to salads and his 9-step guide to the perfect salad. This might take 3 minutes to read. The government official, diarist, and collector, Samuel Pepys, had five cookery books in his library. One of these – Acetaria: A discourse on sallets () – was by his friend, the writer and naturalist, John Evelyn. He also translated Jean de la Quintinie's "The Compleat Gardener." His "Sylva, or a discourse of Forest Trees" was written as a protest against the destruction of trees in England being carried on by the glass factories and iron furnaces, and the book succeeded in inducing landowners to plant millions of trees. John Evelyn () was a virtuoso, scholar and man of letters of Restoration England. His diary is required reading, his architectural and environmental treatises were prophetic, and his gardening was legendary. Acetaria is one of its fruits, being about the virtue of salads over eating meat. It has pleased generations of readers/5(8).

The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. Acetaria: a discourse of sallets by Evelyn, John, Publication date Topics Vegetables, Herbs, Salad greens, Salads Publisher Fisher - University of Toronto Language English "The dedication" signed: John Evelyn With 1 fold. table between p. and Includes bibliographical references Keynes, Evelyn Wing Pfaff, Larry RBSC. Photo, Print, Drawing [Title page and page opposite inscribed by John Evelyn to Sir Christopher Wren, of John Evelyn's Acetaria, a Discourse of Sallets. ] digital file from bw film copy neg.

Book Excerpt. emplations on Sallets only. What I humbly offer Your Lordship, is (as I said) Part of Natural History, the Product of Horticulture, and the Field, dignified by the most illustrious, and sometimes tilled _Laureato Vomere_; which, as it concerns a Part of Philosophy, I may (without Vanity) be allow'd to have taken some Pains in Cultivating, as an inferior Member of the Royal Society. Acetaria: John Evelyn’s homage to salads and his 9-step guide to the perfect salad. This might take 3 minutes to read. The government official, diarist, and collector, Samuel Pepys, had five cookery books in his library. One of these – Acetaria: A discourse on sallets () – was by his friend, the writer and naturalist, John Evelyn. John Evelyn () was a virtuoso, scholar and man of letters of Restoration England. His diary is required reading, his architectural and environmental treatises were prophetic, and his gardening was legendary. Acetaria is one of its fruits, being about the virtue of salads over eating meat. It has pleased generations of readers.