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Five members of LEME staff and myself continue to work on LEME during the COVID-19 epidemic after our lab in the Library closed on March 17. My sincere thanks to Maya Blumenthal, Diana Gil Hamel, and Kristie Lui for joining me as work-study students. Sharine Leung continues in her generous, entirely voluntary role in helping with the release of our Corpus texts. Read more
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Andovilles, They are the great guts of porke, or beef, filled up with thinne slices of tender meat, or small guts of porke, well seasoned with peper, salt, fine hearbs, &c. some doe call the Chitterlings
François Pierre de La Varenne, The French Cook (1653)
James Howell's Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660) frontispiece,
Courtesy of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
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