Food and flavor, a gastronomic guide to health and good living . the mouth, tasting it as youwould a piece of sugar, till it has disappeared entirely,and note what a treasure of delight there is in it. Again: The most nutritious food does not requiresauces. It may seem dry and tasteless to the first im-pression, but, as the juices of the mouth get possessionof it, warm it up, solve its life-giving qualities out ofit and coax it into usefulness, the delight of a new-found delicacy will greet the discoverer. HOW FLAVOR HELPS THE STOMACH. In all cases, be the food simple or the outcome of aFrench
Food and flavor, a gastronomic guide to health and good living . the mouth, tasting it as youwould a piece of sugar, till it has disappeared entirely,and note what a treasure of delight there is in it. Again: The most nutritious food does not requiresauces. It may seem dry and tasteless to the first im-pression, but, as the juices of the mouth get possessionof it, warm it up, solve its life-giving qualities out ofit and coax it into usefulness, the delight of a new-found delicacy will greet the discoverer. HOW FLAVOR HELPS THE STOMACH. In all cases, be the food simple or the outcome of aFrench chefs culinary alchemy, it is its Flavor thatmakes it agreeable and by so doing stimulates the flowof the juices necessary for proper digestion. In the case of the mouth and its salivary glands thisis obvious to all. Everybody knows that the frag-rance of good food makes the mouth water. In the case of the stomach, the connection is much 54 FOOD AND FLAVOR less obvious. Until a few years ago even the medicalmen were in the dark on this extremely important as-. & if \ A French chefs culinary alchemy pect of the question, although French and Germanphysiologists had made important discoveries. IMPORTANCE OF FLAVOR 5$ It remained for Professor Pawlow of St. Petersburgto throw the bright light of scientific experiment on thissubject. He demonstrated in his St. Petersburg laboratorythat the mere presence of food in a dogs stomach—which is like a mans in that respect—does not sufficeto cause a flow of gastric juice, but that the psychicfactor we call appetite—a keen desire for food—causesan abundant flow of that fluid, without which the di-gestion cannot proceed. Now it might be said that there was really no needof laboratory experiments to tell us that food eatenwithout enjoyment lies like lead in the stomach anddoes more harm than good. It is nevertheless a great advantage to have a sci-entific demonstration of the fact and an explanationof it, because it encourages us in t
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