Excerpt from Cakes and Ale: A Dissertation of Banquets, Interspersed With Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and Anecdotes, Mainly Veracious
A long time ago, an estimable lady fell at the feet of an habitual publisher, and prayed unto him: -
"Give, oh! give me the subject of a book for which the world has a need, and I will write it for you."
"Are you an author, madam?" asked the publisher, motioning his visitor to a seat.
"No, sir," was the proud reply, "I am a poet."
"Ah!" said the great man. "I am afraid there is no immediate worldly need of a poet. If you could only write a good cookery book, now!"
The story goes on to relate how the poetess, not rebuffed in the least, started on the requisite culinary work, directly she got home; pawned her jewels to purchase postage stamps, and wrote far and wide for recipes, which in course of time she obtained, by the hundredweight.
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