The English and Australian cookery book, 1864: title page (by "an Australian Aristologist")
Australian dictionary of biography online, viewed 12 November 2014: (Edward Abbott (1801-1869), politician and 'aristologist', was born on 25 February 1801 in Sydney; died Bellerive, Tasmania 4 April 1869. Pastoralist, politician, Usher of the Black Rod, first warden of Clarence municipality. His English and Australian cookery book is one of the earliest substantial cookery manuals by an Australian - although published pseudonymously, by "an Australian Aristologist", the book was known to be Abbott's work.) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/abbott-edward-12762