1. Dishes included roasted, grilled, or boiled beef, mutton, gazelle, fish, and poultry —all served with spicy garlic sauces and an assortment of vegetables and cheeses.

2. Considering the technology of the time, any piece of salt pork, ham, boiled beef, or cheese was wrapped in a piece of cloth and stuffed into the hAversack

3. Abiogenesist - believed in the spontaneous generation theory experiment with boiled beef gravy tightly sealed with corks in vials must be a "life-force" that causes inanimate matter to spontaneously come to life because he had heated the vials sufficiently to kill everything