When Gaining Weight Wasn't a Problem

In a world where one is forced to be a locavore, where there is no refrigeration, and where starvation is a much more severe problem than obesity, the cook has very different priorities.

Ladies and gentlemen, a 1750's recipe book from Yale's Rare Books Library:

Feeling peckish!! Here is a collection of recipes which includes "savory dishes such as calves’ foot pudding; hedgehog pudding; roast eel and lobsters" and plague water! https://t.co/4YJWE6f0Ae

— Haim A. Gottschalk (@GottschalkHaim) April 11, 2021