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Article: Edward Abbott and aristology.(Review)
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- The Australian Library Journal
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- May 1, 2000
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The following is the opening address to the 11th Symposium of Australian Gastronomy, Hobart, 6 September 1999. The Symposium is held biennially and is attended by assorted foodies, chefs, winemakers, and even, occasionally, librarians.
Manuscript received November 1999
I AM HERE THIS EVENING TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT EDWARD ABBOTT, the `Australian Aristologist', and the cookbook which he published in 1864. But I want to begin nearly thirty years earlier, with the man who coined the term (if not the philosophy) of `Aristology'. Thomas Walker, who was born in 1784 and died in 1836, was a police magistrate and barrister of London. In 1835 he published (indeed, ...