{"product_id":"2940014105408","title":"Vegetable Diet (as sanctioned by medical Men, and by Experience in all Ages, including a System of Vegetable Cookery)","description":"An excerpt:\u003cbr\u003e\"The great question in regard to diet, viz., whether any food of the\u003cbr\u003eanimal kind is absolutely necessary to the most full and perfect\u003cbr\u003edevelopment of man's whole nature, being fairly up, both in Europe and\u003cbr\u003eAmerica, and there being no practical, matter-of-fact volume on the\u003cbr\u003esubject, of moderate size, in the market, numerous friends have been for\u003cbr\u003esome time urging me to get up a new and revised edition of a work which,\u003cbr\u003ethough imperfect, has been useful to many, while it has been for some\u003cbr\u003etime out of print\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoiled Grains.\u003cbr\u003eThese require less mastication than those which are submitted to other\u003cbr\u003eprocesses; but they are more easy of digestion, and to some more\u003cbr\u003epalatable, and even more digestible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndian corn may be boiled, but the process requires six\u003cbr\u003ehours or more, even after it has soaked all night, and there has been a\u003cbr\u003efrequent change of the water. And with all this boiling, the skins\u003cbr\u003esometimes adhere rather strongly, unless you boil with them some ashes,\u003cbr\u003eor other alkali.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteaming is better than boiling. Some fry them; others stew\u003cbr\u003ethem with vegetables for soup, etc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe carrot is richer than the turnip, but not therefore more\u003cbr\u003edigestible. It may be boiled, stewed, fried, or made into pies,\u003cbr\u003epuddings, etc. It is a very tolerable article of food.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAsparagus, well boiled, is nutritious and wholesome. Salt is\u003cbr\u003eoften added, and sometimes butter. The former, to many, is needless; the\u003cbr\u003elatter, to all, injurious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuskmelons are richer than watermelons, but not more\u003cbr\u003ewholesome. Of the canteloupe I know but little.\u003cbr\u003eThe cucumber. Taken at the moment when ripe;neither green\u003cbr\u003enor acid;the cucumber is almost, but not quite as valuable as the\u003cbr\u003emelon. It should be eaten in the same way, rejecting the rind. The\u003cbr\u003eOrientals of modern days sometimes boil them, but in former times they\u003cbr\u003eate them uncooked, though always ripe.\u003cbr\u003eGreens and salads are stringy and indigestible. Besides,\u003cbr\u003ethey are much used, as condiments are, to excite or provoke an\u003cbr\u003eappetite;a thing usually wrong. A feeble appetite, say at the opening\u003cbr\u003eof the spring, however common, is a great blessing. If let alone, nature\u003cbr\u003ewill erelong set to rights those things, which have gone wrong perhaps\u003cbr\u003eall winter; and then appetite will return in a natural way...\"","brand":"Ladislav Deczi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073868873968,"sku":"2940014105408","price":3.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014105408_p0.jpg?v=1763600712","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014105408","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}