 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1826 - 850 pages
...large, meagre or fat, and of an excellent or indifferent flavour : in general, how. ever, their flesh is more delicate, more succulent, and better tasted, than that of the tame turkey : they are in the l>est order late hi the autumn, or in the beginning of winter. The Indians value this food so highly,... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 760 pages
...large, meagre or fat, and of an excellent or indifferent flavour : in general, however, their flesh is more delicate, more succulent, and better tasted than...present it to strangers as the best they can offer. It seems probable that in Mexico the wild turkey cannot obtain such substantial food as in the United... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - Birds - 1831 - 392 pages
...however, their flesh is more delicate, more succulent, and better tasted than that of the tameturkey : they are in the best order late in the autumn, or...present it to strangers as the best they can offer. It seems probable that in Mexico the wild turkey cannot obtain such substantial food as in the United... | |
 | Sir William Jardine - Galliformes - 1834 - 388 pages
...large, meagre or fat, and of an excellent or indifferent flavour ; in general, however, their flesh is more delicate, more succulent, and better tasted than...present it to strangers as the best they can offer. " The Indians make much use of their tails as fans ; the women weave their feathers with much art on... | |
 | James Joseph Nolan - Game and game-birds - 1850 - 208 pages
...large, meagre or fat, and of an excellent or indifferent flavour ; in general, however, their flesh is more delicate, more succulent, and better tasted than...the tame turkey. They are in the best order, late in autumn, or in the beginning of winter. The Indians value this food so highly , when roasted, that they... | |
 | James Joseph Nolan - Game and game-birds - 1850 - 198 pages
...large, meagre or fat, and of an excellent or indifferent flatvour; in general, however, their flesh is more delicate, more succulent, and better tasted than...the tame turkey. They are in the best order, late in autumn, or in the beginning of winter. The Indians value this food so highly, when roasted, that they... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 824 pages
...large, meagre or fat, and of an excellent or indiHerent flavour: in general, however, their flesh is more delicate, more succulent, and better tasted than...dish," and present it to strangers as the best they can ofler. They make much use of their tails as fans; the women weave their feathers w'ith much art on... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...large, meagre or fat, and of an excellent or indifferent flavour: in general, however, their flesh is more delicate, more, succulent, and better tasted...present it to strangers as the best they can offer. They make much use of their tails as fans; the women weave their feathers with much art on a loose... | |
 | John Timbs - Cookbooks - 1859 - 204 pages
...throughout the world, and almost universally constitutes a favourite banquet dish. The Indians value it so highly, when roasted, that they call it " the white...present it to strangers as the best they can offer. In England, the rapid increase of turkeys had rendered them attainable at country leasts as early jjs... | |
 | William Jardine - Galliformes - 1860 - 416 pages
...large, meagre or fat, and of an excellent or indifferent flavour ; in general, however, their flesh is more delicate, more succulent, and better tasted than...in the autumn, or in the beginning of winter. The Indiana value this food so highly when roasted, that they call it ' the white man's dish,' and present... | |
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... proportion to the abundance or scarcity of food, and its good or bad quality, they are small or large, meagre or fat, and of an excellent or indifferent flavour : in general, however, their flesh is more delicate, more succulent, and better tasted... 
