TICKLING THE PALATE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 13 July 1907, Page 4

TICKLING THE PALATE.

MJUX I'KJU -MILKS -YIIKAD'' OF UMKIKS.

"Tlm- m.i n wljo en joy i plain luoil miles ahnni. physic-ally and ly kin;.', of the m:in who would Icjive )iis meal untouched if it weie nol, that even jtfio of it \v;u calculated 'to tickle the pulule.'"

Thi- is the <<>miu*iou of a writer in the Lnicet in au article on the price we pay /"i' flavor. "The human nuo is

wickedly indulgent, caring more,for tin* jttlatable tlun the nutritious <|ualilv of iVmkl," lie say-.

"Men will \my half a guinea for a pint of turtle soup, whirh. from a Mriclly nutritive jwint «»f view, i- not worth a IweiiTiitli part of that -aim. Oysters are an extravagant form of food. ,sin<-e fourteen of tle-ni do not contain as much nourishment as a single egg- while it w«»uld reqiiii«* the ingestion of no than good r»y>ter-i U'hM'e the protein

equivalent of a [Kjtiud of beef was reach'■d. "Then- are. however, i learly instance.in which no -mse can the nutritive equivalent of fo«»d and leverages l»e sinnnied up in -o many |KJiinds, nhillings. and

pen«»». How often i- it found, for example, that the invalid may be tempted to takf ;i few oyster-* Id preference to a small !*ef liilet, or some turtle Roup when ralves' head, the basis of mock turtle, would M-anely ap}»eal to him. even although it may be more than equal ju nutritive value to the only reptile used to any extent a« food in thi* countryi"