Houses And House-Life of the American Aborigines
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" [Footnote: History of Mexico, ii, 262. ] The "gruel of maize" here mentioned as forming usually the Aztecbreakfast suggests the "hominy of the Iroquois, " which, like it, wasnot unlikely kept constantly prepared in every Mexican house as alunch for the hungry. Two meals each day are mentioned by otherSpanish authors, but as the Aztecs, as well as the tribes in Yucatanand Central America, were ignorant of the use of tables and chairsin eating their food, divided their food from the kettle, pla...cingthe dinner of each person usually in a separate bowl, and separatedat their meals, the men eating first and by themselves, and thewomen and children afterwards, this similarity of usage renders itprobable they were not far removed from the Iroquois in respect tothe time and manner of taking their food. Montezuma's dinner, witnessed by Bernal-Diaz and others, and elaborately described by anumber of authors, shows that the Aztecs had a smoking hot dinnereach day, prepared regularly, and on a scale adequate to a largehousehold; that the dinner of each person was placed in one bowl, and all these bowls to the number of several hundred were brought inand set down together upon the floor of one room, where they weretaken up one by one by the male members of the household, and thecontents eaten sitting down upon the floor or standing in the opencourt, as best suited them.
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" [Footnote: History of Mexico, ii, 262. ] The "gruel of maize" here mentioned as forming usually the Aztecbreakfast suggests the "hominy of the Iroquois, " which, like it, wasnot unlikely kept constantly prepared in every Mexican house as alunch for the hungry. Two meals each day are mentioned by otherSpanish authors, but as the Aztecs, as well as the tribes in Yucatanand Central America, were ignorant of the use of tables and chairsin eating their food, divided their food from the kettle, pla...cingthe dinner of each person usually in a separate bowl, and separatedat their meals, the men eating first and by themselves, and thewomen and children afterwards, this similarity of usage renders itprobable they were not far removed from the Iroquois in respect tothe time and manner of taking their food. Montezuma's dinner, witnessed by Bernal-Diaz and others, and elaborately described by anumber of authors, shows that the Aztecs had a smoking hot dinnereach day, prepared regularly, and on a scale adequate to a largehousehold; that the dinner of each person was placed in one bowl, and all these bowls to the number of several hundred were brought inand set down together upon the floor of one room, where they weretaken up one by one by the male members of the household, and thecontents eaten sitting down upon the floor or standing in the opencourt, as best suited them.
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