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...feelings, derive from three or four primordial necessities, whereof the principal one is food. The least modification of one of these necessities would entail a marked change in our moral existence. Were the belief one day to become general that man could dispense with animal food, there would ensue not only a great economic revolution--for a bullock, to produce one pound of meat, consumes more than a hundred of provender--but a moral improvement as well."--_Maurice Maeterlinck._
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? so to have somewhat left to give, instead of being always prompt to grab."--_Emerson._

Foreword.
"Diet cures mair than physic."--_Scotch Proverb._
"The first wealth is health."--_Emerson._
"Of making books there is no end," and as this is no less true of cookery books than of those devoted to each and every other subject of human interest, one rather hesitates to add anything to the sum of domestic literature. But while every department of the culinary art has... Emerson, Ralph Waldo