The Cook's Prologue

Just came across this nice engraving of Chaucer’s Cook in Urry’s 1721 edition of Chaucer (the first edition not printed in black letter or “gothic” style type). Chaucer, and my notion that I should eat every food mentioned in the Canterbury Tales, was the genesis of cruditas, and Chaucer’s cook, and his jakkes of Dover, that evil pye, was always in mind.