Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.
John EvelynThe Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire habit of their bodies; so the Catarrhs,...Cough, and Consumption, range more in this one City, than in the whole Earth besides.
John EvelynI am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.
John Evelyn