Sailors & sauerkraut, or, Recipes from paradise, or, Making do with what you have: A reading cook book with extracts from the journals of William ... Samwell, and recipes interpolated therein
Used Book in Good Condition Napoleon's army marched on its stomach, but Cook's men mapped the unknown regions, nearly one-third of the world, on sauerkraut. The ships of Captain James Cook went around the world three times between 1768 and 1780, sailing nearly two hundred thousand miles into the unknown. His ships were small, powered only by sail, a hundred and six feet long and thirty feet wide. They were designed for carrying coal. Cook put a hundred men in them and provisioned them for a 2-year cruise. Cook was extremely concerned about the health of his crews, obliging the men to eat greens, fruit and grain, against all shipboard tradition. He was so successful as a dietician that not one of his sailors died of Scurvy. This book combines interesting and amusing excerpts dealing with food, from the expeditions' journals and recipes developed by the authors using the food Cook had on board or gathered on shore.
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