Food and flavor, a gastronomic guide to health and good living . largescale of diverse substitutes for coffee, some of which arenot at all bad if taken with sugar and cream. Some relief is also coming through the increased de-mand for cocoa, which has the advantage over tea andcoffee of being a real food. In the period from 1888 to1911 imports of cocoa into the United States increasedfrom 6,600,000 pounds to 134,000,000, while those ofcoffee increased only from 404,000,000 to 800,000,000pounds, and those of tea from 68,000,000 to 104,-000,000 pounds. That tea is the worst enemy of the Irish pe
Food and flavor, a gastronomic guide to health and good living . largescale of diverse substitutes for coffee, some of which arenot at all bad if taken with sugar and cream. Some relief is also coming through the increased de-mand for cocoa, which has the advantage over tea andcoffee of being a real food. In the period from 1888 to1911 imports of cocoa into the United States increasedfrom 6,600,000 pounds to 134,000,000, while those ofcoffee increased only from 404,000,000 to 800,000,000pounds, and those of tea from 68,000,000 to 104,-000,000 pounds. That tea is the worst enemy of the Irish peasantrywas the burden of a blue book issued a few years agoby the Inspectors of Irish schools. The tea is so pre-pared for use that the liquid, when drunk, has the prop-erties of a slow poison. The teapot stewing on thehearth all day long is kept literally on tap; the mem-bers of the family, young as well as old, resorting to itat discretion. 578 FOOD AND FLAVOR It is not only among the peasantry and the city slumsthat improperly made tea does its deadly In If ! 3% I A1 v
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