Record Number: 9925

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'This cabbage we have eaten every day since we left Cape Horn, and have now good store remaining; as good, to our palates at least, and fully as green and pleasing to the eye as if it were bought fresh every morning at Covent Garden Market. Our steward has given me the receipt, which I shall copy exactly - false spelling excepted.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

9 Apr 1769

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

other location: At sea - in the Pacific Ocean

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Joseph Banks

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

13 Feb 1743

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Naturalist

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

[uknown-ship's cook?]

Title:

[recipe]

Genre:

Cookery

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Sheet, Hand written recipe.

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

borrowed (other)

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Source Information:

Record ID:

9925

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Banks

Editor:

Joseph Hooker

Title:

Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., K.B. PRS during Captain Cook's First Voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies etc.

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1896

Vol:

n/a

Page:

70

Additional Comments:

Published by MacMillan & Co. Ltd

Citation:

Joseph Banks, Joseph Hooker (ed.), Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., K.B. PRS during Captain Cook's First Voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies etc. (London, 1896), p. 70, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=9925, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Date of birth corrected from that given in the book (2 February 1743 O.S.) I have been unable to identify the steward.