As through neglect or caprice we have lost some eatables, which our ancestors held in high esteem, as the heron, the bittern, the crane, and, I may add, the swan, it should seem requisite ... to replace what has been laid aside by the introduction of some eatable which was not known to our predecessors ... Of all the improvements in the modern kitchen there are none that can bear a comparison with the introduction of Turtle. We are indebted for this delicacy, as well as for several others, to the generous spirit and benevolent zeal of the West Indians: The World (1755)p. 99
How can Alderman Pogson know anything beyond the fact that venison is good with currant jelly, and that he likes lots of green fat with his turtle?W. M. Thackeray, "Fitz-Boodle's Professions" in Burlesquesvol. 2 p. 230 editionis 1887
We learn that the mayor and aldermen of that loyal borough [Southampton] had the particular satisfaction of celebrating the royal nuptials by a magnificent turtle-feast: Oliver Goldsmith, "Unacknowledged Essays" no. 10 (cf. p. 155 apud Google Books), primum in The Public Ledger die 17 Septembris 1761 sine nomine auctoris divulgatum
