
Still Life with Ham, by Philippe Rousseau, c. 1870. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1982.
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“As if I swallowed a baby,” said William Makepeace Thackeray about eating his first oyster.
What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BC