Strange, too, that it should be so, since I do not recall its ever contributing the first mouthful to my pleasures as a schoolboy Gastronomer.
"A Rambler's lease"
Bradford Torrey
All used to go on very well, till coffee was introduced, but the stomach soon refused the labor to which it had been subjected, and the unfortunate Gastronomer was forced to throw himself on the sofa and remain in agony until the next day, in expiation of the brief pleasure he had enjoyed.
"The Physiology of Taste"
Brillat Savarin