Zebu
the Indian ox with a sacred hump on his back, which is the pinnacle of beef-supramundane-heavenly-not to be eaten. When beef becomes a god, who dare devour him?
Who will make broth out of Jupiter Bos, and turn the Brahminee bull into toad in the hole? Yet something like it has been done :- The Egyptian rites the Jebusites embraced, Where gods were recommended by the taste; Such savoury deities must needs be good, As served at once for worship and for food.
ZEST-the pungent yellow on the surface of oranges and lemons; the bitter skin of the walnut; anything with a penetrating taste. But such is the vanity of human happiness, that whereas we use the word zest to signify whatever gives relish to life, the French use it not only for this, but for very nothingness. Zest! Fiddlesticks! It has been stated, and it ought to be true if it is not, that a German author has written a great book on the zest of an orange-the all and the nothing.
Zootje ZOOTJE-a Dutch word as near as possible in root and in meaning to the English Seethed. All honour to the inhabitants of sea and river that can afford to make our acquaintance not dressed in the royal robes of curious sauces, but in the naked simplicity of the bath in which they have swum over the fire! Their advent at our tables in a vehicle of water is so creditable to them, and "so unusual, that it is always signalised in the name of Waterzootje.
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