Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
John EvelynMulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.
John EvelynI am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.
John EvelynA gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.
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 Evelyn