Stag Cook Book, Written for Men

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Cooking is a gift, not an art. Eating is an art, not a gift. In combination a grace is developed. No great culinary triumph was ever perfected by accident. Charles Lamb's essay on roast pig was responsible for a tidal wave of burnt pork that swept over England in the nineteenth century. Mr. Lamb led a hungry em pire to the belief that only through an act of incendiarism could a suckling porker be converted into a delicacy; Whereas, as a matter of fact, the perfection of roast pork, golden-brown and unseared by fire, were possible only in the oven.