Humorous Victorian Attitudes towards Food and Nutrition 'A Riotous Treasure for True Epicureans' 'A Feast of a Pure Delight' 'Your tastebuds will never feel the same' Victorian talks on Food The New Glutton or Epicure By Horace Fletcher There is now no doubt but that taste is evidence of a chemical process going on that should not be interrupted or transferred to the interior of the body. Tried upon milk for so long a period as seventeen days, during which nothing was taken but milk, not even water, thorough insalivation ...
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Humorous Victorian Attitudes towards Food and Nutrition 'A Riotous Treasure for True Epicureans' 'A Feast of a Pure Delight' 'Your tastebuds will never feel the same' Victorian talks on Food The New Glutton or Epicure By Horace Fletcher There is now no doubt but that taste is evidence of a chemical process going on that should not be interrupted or transferred to the interior of the body. Tried upon milk for so long a period as seventeen days, during which nothing was taken but milk, not even water, thorough insalivation secured more than a twenty-five per cent economy in actual assimilation; not alone with one subject, but with no less than five persons, living on milk from the same cow, and all of whose strict test history was recorded. It seems also to be the only way in which a practically odourless solid excreta is obtainable, and this is certainly evidence worth considering and a desideratum worth striving for. While it is an excellent thing to give thorough mouth attention to anything taken into the body, to solids alone, even if liquids are neglected, the best economic and cleanly results are only obtained when all substances, both liquid and solid, are either munched or tasted out of existence, as it were, and have been absorbed into a waiting and willing body; a body with an earned appetite. 'sensuous enjoyment'
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