American vs. British list (1900)

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:47 PM -0400 5/11/02, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>A SUMMER IN ENGLAND:
>WITH A CONTINENTAL SUPPLEMENT
>A HANDBOOK FOR THE USE OF AMERICAN WOMEN
>Published by the Women's Rest Tour Association
>Boston: A. J. Ochs and Company
>1900

Surprising how many of these still apply, a century later (while
others are definitely dated, on one side or the other or both).  My
favorite, more for what it implicates about British culinary
practices (fortunately also somewhat dated), is:

>  _American._                                      _English._

>Rare (meat).                                         Underdone.

larry