If Pepys Had Dieted
AKE little Sammy Pepys, who left a diary which is practically a running commentary on the grand national pastime of mopping up the nourishment. Samuel Pepys didn’t merely eat a meal -he embraced it. To prove it, here are a few items culled at random from his diary. " Went to the '
Sun Taverne on Fish Street Hill to a dinner of Captain Teddyman’s where we had a very’ fine dinner, good musique, and a great deal of wine. I very merry, went to bed, my head aching all night." Also " Home
and found my wife and maid with much ado had made shift to spit a great turkey." But had he been told what faulty feeding can do to the inward and invisible Sammy his diary would have read very differently. Something like this: "Home betide with the latest diet chart which do trouble me much by the meanness of its content. But I do fear mightily of hardened arteries if I obey it not. So did dine right stingily of a carrot uncooked and the water of barley boiled. And so to bed, sadly consoled by the thought that I shall live to a noble age though, I fear, right dismally." Or "Did meet Sir William Greenleaf and so to the milk bar where we did discourse sombrely of the Anfluence of protein and did part right mournfully." -("A Fritter With Food." Ken Alexander, 2YA, May 22.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 155, 12 June 1942, Page 3
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242If Pepys Had Dieted New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 155, 12 June 1942, Page 3
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