Identifier: azoresorwesterni00walk (find matches)
Title: The Azores : or Western Islands : a political, commercial and geographical account ...
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Walker, Walter Frederick
Subjects: Azores -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Trubner & Co.
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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the cleanliness of his establishment.No Lucullus-like feasts of flamingoes tongues and pea-cocks brains await the Sybarite, but the limpit, conger-eel, and octopus enter largely into the domestic economy ofmine host. Still the dishes are numerous, and there isalways something eatable on the table; considering thesmall charge made, from 3s. 6d. to 4s. a-day, and the distancemany of the provisions have to come, it is astonishinghow well Snr. Jeronimo caters. The Portuguese generallyeschew the heavy nitrogenous food, which our dieteticmismanagement, and perhaps the climate of England,habituates us to—a diet so fatal to the consumptive,increasing, as it is said to do, the deposit of the tubercle;but, here, more regard is paid to the stew-pot, the gizados turned out by the native chef being delicious, light and inex-pensive gastronomic productions. Unfortunately, the lazy,relaxing climate, though it makes existence to some apositive pleasure, kills all energy, and the native well-to-do.
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205 foregoing all exercise, suffers horribly at middle-age fromliver and indigestion; his ^estomago, as he will patheticallytell you, being his greatest bane and enemy. A dash of garlic—not altogether unpalatable to thosewho give it a fair trial—characterises Portuguese cookery;and the use of the dried carollas of the safflower (Garthamustinctorius), for flavouring and colouring food, will recall toAnglo-Indians a culinary practice so much in vogue in theEast. The delicious perfume arising from a patch ofsafflower in the flush of bloom is a thing to be remembered. The hotel is situated in the very centre of the valley, andin all directions are charming lanes and narrow pathways,draped with greenest leaf. The birds-eye view of the lake having excited ourcuriosity, we cannot rest until we have explored its shores,and as the distance is about a mile and a half, and we shall haveplenty of walking, the best way is to order donkeys to carryus there. Approached on this side, the most con

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