These very desirable articles with several other addi- tions to the hygienic menu were also received at " the eleventh hour " too late for critical experiment. But as they are manufactured in vegetarian laboratories and guaranteed free from animal fat and withal seem to fill a gap and supply a need, a few recipes containing them are given, but time was too brief to do them justice. Crushed nuts, nut butter and nut meal of home make were used in. all preceding recipes containing nuts. CONDIMENTS AND SEASONINGS. 1 67 CHAPTER XII. CONDIMENTS AND SEASONINGS. From the remote day when the first salt crystal was applied, probably by accident, to animal food, and the partakers thereof discovered a new flavor, enticing the human palate from the natural into the artificial has formed a large part of the occupation of mankind. Flesh-eating perverted the taste, and condiments have multiplied until our gustatory civilization ha^ increased the amount of spices, seasonings and flavors, and their destructive tendency to health and morals is not only apparent, but truly appalling. The cumulative effect of these spices may be better realized by taking in the mouth a lump of salt, a teaspoon- ful of pepper, mustard, ginger, nutmeg, allspice or cloves. Make them into a poultice and apply to the flesh ; observe how nature resists the intruder. What then must be the result of daily repeated application to the more suscepti- ble membrane lining the digestive tract ? Yet every day at the table are consumed quantities of several condi- ments. Meats and vegetables are blackened with pepper, deluged with sauces, catsups, etc., besides numerous additions of salt, vinegar and pickles ; then follow liberal potations of hot tea and coffee to quench the internal fever. Possibly a bottle of port, sherry or mineral water is also required to aid Q) digestion, while the partakers 1 68 THE FAT OF THE LAND. thereof flatter themselves that they have been bountifully fed and are well nourished ! The wonder is that people are not more "nervous," " stupid and dull," have "harder headaches " and are not altogether more "uncomfortable" after indulgence in these unrighteous combinations of food and drink. A still greater wonder is that the human digestive apparatus will accustom itself to incessant abuse, even to the recei> tion of slow poisons, distributing them in various nooks and channels of the body until they accumulate to such an extent that watchful sentinels ring in the alarm with aches, pains and spasmodic twinges "too grievous to be borne." Is it, then, anything strange that ,men die suddenly at their own tables, at feasts and banquets spread in honor of events and individuals ? Is it any wonder they drop dead on the street, the rostrum and in the pulpit } Need we marvel over the increase of suicide and insanity, or that the oppressed and abnormal brain plots crimes against the body politic ? Dietetic reformers are convinced that of the vices which mar individual character or develop into crimes, it may be truly said at our own tables these have their beginning. Nature in her wonderful laboratory has included every salt and chemical essential to the growth and develop- ment of the animal kingdom. Has she exhibited less care and wisdom in preparing food for the human family? The difficulty is not with the food, but with our perverted appetites. We have added to, or subtracted from pure food till natural flavor and identity are almost obliterated. Indulgence in the use of animal food has encouraged this pickling, salting and spicing process until we, the individ- CONDIMENTS AND SEASONINGS. 1 69 ual, merely " stay " in the body, the flag of our energy drooping at " half-mast," instead of so living as to develop every inherent power to its utmost capacity, as befits the noble masterpiece of the Divine mind.

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These very desirable articles with several other additions to the hygienic menu were also received at " the eleventh hour " too late for critical experiment. But as they are manufactured in vegetarian laboratories and guaranteed free from animal fat and withal seem to fill a gap and supply a need, a few recipes containing them are given, but time was too brief to do them justice. Crushed nuts, nut butter and nut meal of home make were used in. all preceding recipes containing nuts. CHAPTER XII. From the remote day when the first salt crystal was applied, probably by accident, to animal food, and the partakers thereof discovered a new flavor, enticing the human palate from the natural into the artificial has formed a large part of the occupation of mankind. Flesh-eating perverted the taste, and condiments have multiplied until our gustatory civilization has increased the amount of spices, seasonings and flavors, and their destructive tendency to health and morals is not only apparent, but truly appalling. The cumulative effect of these spices may be better realized by taking in the mouth a lump of salt, a teaspoonful of pepper, mustard, ginger, nutmeg, allspice or cloves. Make them into a poultice and apply to the flesh ; observe how nature resists the intruder. What then must be the result of daily repeated application to the more susceptible membrane lining the digestive tract ? Yet every day at the table are consumed quantities of several condiments. Meats and vegetables are blackened with pepper, deluged with sauces, catsups, etc., besides numerous additions of salt, vinegar and pickles ; then follow liberal potations of hot tea and coffee to quench the internal fever. Possibly a bottle of port, sherry or mineral water is also required to aid digestion, while the partakers thereof flatter themselves that they have been bountifully fed and are well nourished ! The wonder is that people are not more "nervous," " stupid and dull," have "harder headaches " and are not altogether more "uncomfortable" after indulgence in these unrighteous combinations of food and drink. A still greater wonder is that the human digestive apparatus will accustom itself to incessant abuse, even to the reception of slow poisons, distributing them in various nooks and channels of the body until they accumulate to such an extent that watchful sentinels ring in the alarm with aches, pains and spasmodic twinges "too grievous to be borne." Is it, then, anything strange that ,men die suddenly at their own tables, at feasts and banquets spread in honor of events and individuals ? Is it any wonder they drop dead on the street, the rostrum and in the pulpit } Need we marvel over the increase of suicide and insanity, or that the oppressed and abnormal brain plots crimes against the body politic ? Dietetic reformers are convinced that of the vices which mar individual character or develop into crimes, it may be truly said at our own tables these have their beginning. Nature in her wonderful laboratory has included every salt and chemical essential to the growth and development of the animal kingdom. Has she exhibited less care and wisdom in preparing food for the human family? The difficulty is not with the food, but with our perverted appetites. We have added to, or subtracted from pure food till natural flavor and identity are almost obliterated. Indulgence in the use of animal food has encouraged this pickling, salting and spicing process until we, the individ- ual, merely " stay " in the body, the flag of our energy drooping at " half-mast," instead of so living as to develop every inherent power to its utmost capacity, as befits the noble masterpiece of the Divine mind.

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