The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Beeton

542. SUBSEQUENTLY TO THE CROAT MODE, which, doubtless, was in fashion in

the earlier ages of the world, fire was discovered. This was an accident; for fire is not, although we are accustomed to call it so, an element, or spontaneous. Many savage nations have been found utterly ignorant of it, and many races had no other way of dressing their food than by exposing it to the rays of the sun.