{"product_id":"2940000747698","title":"Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine","description":"A history of cooking, first published in 1902.  The Introduction begins: \"Man has been distinguished from other animals in various ways; but perhaps there is no particular in which he exhibits so marked a difference from the rest of creation--not even in the prehensile faculty resident in his hand--as in the objection to raw food, meat, and vegetables. He approximates to his inferior contemporaries only in the matter of fruit, salads, and oysters, not to mention wild-duck. He entertains no sympathy with the cannibal, who judges the flavour of his enemy improved by temporary commitment to a subterranean larder; yet, to be sure, he keeps his grouse and his venison till it approaches the condition of spoon-meat.\"  ","brand":"B\u0026R Samizdat Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076401414384,"sku":"2940000747698","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940000747698_p0.jpg?v=1763545138","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940000747698","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}