A NEW DELICACY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1222, 11 December 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

A NEW DELICACY.

Not only has the intellect of the worm been sadly unappreciated for centuries till Mr Darwin rehabilitated that sagacious reptile, but it appears that his value as a viand has been greatly misunderstood and underrated. A group of French gourmets, whose object it is to do for the cooking of the future what Wagner is doing for its music, are happily following up the labors of Darwin in this direction, and, having recently tried this tempting morsel, have communicated to a grateful public the result of their first researches. Fifty guests were present at the experiment, The worms, apparently lobworms, were first put into vinegar, by which process they were made to disgorge the famous vegetable mould about which we have recently heard so much. They were then rolled in batter and put inte an oven, where they acquired a delightful golden tint, and, we are assured, a most appetising smell. After the first plateful the fifty guests rose like one man, and asked for more. Could anything be more convincing ? Those who love enails, they add, will abandon them for ever iu favor of worms. And yet M Monselet, the great authority in Paris

has told us sadly that no advances have been made in the great art of cookery since Brillat-Savarin, and that all enthusiasm on the subject died out with Vatel when he committed suicide because the fish had not arrived for the Royal dinner I