• Semantic field of cookery and fine dining: "a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust." The French terms suggest a refined, elaborate cuisine, revealing the depraved perspective of the author; he appears to be more concerned with the quality of the sauce than the morality of cannibalism.