βMr. D is now much taken with all sorts of cookery and spends all his ingenuity in finding out the most commodious way of frying broiling roasting stewing and preserving. His whole study is to please his fancy in everything and by running away from all things that might show him his errorsβ.
Anne Dormer complaining about her husband in a letter to Elizabeth Trumbull, ca. 1685-1691.

















