Evening star., 1936-07-17
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

They say that corn begins to lose its
sweetness half an hour after it is picked.
Beets, too, and peas, and squash, and
all the other succulent vegetables are
never known at their best save when
eaten fresh from the earth.
Modern transportation facilities have
given us Of the cities fresh vegetables
and fruits the year around, but If we
want to know the real taste of things
we have to grow 'em and pick 'em our
selves-unless we have good neighbor.
Good Neighbor No. l brought us q
mess of beets the other day.
Such beets!
We didn't know that beets could taste
so good. The genuine fresh beets, folks,
right out OF the ground, with all the
color and taste, and. what is more i'm
portant all the vitamins.
Vitamins have been heard a great deal
OF in recent years They are destined
to be heard from more in the years to
come, as food scientists learn more and
more about them.
There can be no doubt, for instance,
that vitamin A is good" for eye trou-
bles. We know one WaShingtonian
who was told by his doctor that he must
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more than IS pages of his beloved books.
He took a combination of vitamins A
and D for colds, beginning about year
ago. That he hasn't had cold since is
encouraging, but the effect on his eyes
was magnificent. Today, without glasses,
he Is reading Gone With the Wind"
and enjoying it. several hundred pages
at time.
You can't get away from vitamins. The
old folks got them in their food, because
their eatables were not processed for
modern transportation, and they lived
largely out of their gardens.
Vitamins Of all kinds $50 far discov-
ereO come from green plants. The cod,
whose justly famous liver is world re-
nowned, eats smaller fishes which in
turn have fed on marine algae. And so
it goes. The vitamins in our milk come
from the grasses which the COWS crop.
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If there is any elixir of life, as the
ancients thought, surely it lies in food
and no place else. For it is grub, just
plain grub, which the living world seeks.
All things alive must eat, even if each
other, such is Natures queer scheme. 1t
means that no vitaminS are lost, but crop
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If we eat fresh vegetables, fruits and
and good milk milk should be regarded
as food, not drink, along with raw
salads (be sure they are very, very clean) =,
we come about as near as most people
can to solving the vitamin question.
To run around trying to exactly meas
ure vitamin this and vitamin that is Just
new form of worrying ones self, ex-
cept by the person whose mind runs that
way, and who combines science with
common sense.
We are convinced that a great many
people, especially children, do not like
vegetables because of the shape and
form in which they usually are served.
Try running them through a ricer.
This is an interesting experiment. 1t is
possible for the person who does not like
vegetables to eat great many this way,
without missing q vitamin. Some very
artistic dinner plates can be composed
with these riced vegetables. Try it
some time on those who say, "Oh, I do
not like vegetables" The whole world
is in revolution, and there might as well
be revolution in vegetables. Maybe
if the world of men tried to find out
better ways of living in the every day,
instead of looking so longingly for uni
versal Utopias in the large, it would solve
its economic problems, too,