Wednesday, 29 October 2008

Does deer cause depression?

or is preparation by cookery the basis of English humour?

All venison is melancholy, and begets bad blood; a pleasant meat: in great esteem with us (for we have more parks in England than in all Europe besides) in our solemn feasts. 'Tis somewhat better hunted than otherwise, and well prepared by cookery, and yet all will not serve.

Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

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