How to eat

I read this today and I think it’s pretty powerful stuff.  And so I share it with you as is my wont to do so these days 🙂

 

When, having had sufficient to eat, there yet remain many highly palatable dishes untasted, one is sometimes apt to gratify sense at the expense of health and good-breeding, to say nothing of economy.

Simplicity and purity in food are essential to physical health as simplicity and purity in art are essential to moral and intellectual progress. ‘I may say,’ says Dr. Haig, ‘that simple food of not more than two or three kinds at one meal is another secret of health; and if this seems harsh to those whose day is at present divided between anticipating their food and eating, I must ask them to consider whether such a life is not the acme of selfish shortsightedness.

In case they should ever be at a loss what to do with the time and money thus saved from feasting, I would point on the one hand to the mass of unrelieved ignorance, sorrow, and suffering, and on the other to the doors of literature and art, which stand open to those fortunate enough to have time to enter them; and from none of these need any turn aside for want of new Kingdoms to conquer.’

Rupert Wheldon, No Animal Food

 

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