The invention of fruit salad is attributed to a Roman of the Ist century B.C. who first mixed ‘’apples and grapes” and served them to his guests in “neat little side-plates." This man. Catius by name, also first mixed white and black pepper for vegetable salads. Besides discovering that seed fruits and stone fruits should not be eaten at the same time he also advised concluding a meal with fruit. That starvation as a slimming racket was well known and practised at this time is also evident from the following quotation from Plutarch’s “Life of Antony”—anent his Cleopatra: “She gave out that she was dying for love of Antony, bringing her body down by slender diet.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1939, Page 3
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116Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1939, Page 3
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