The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-05

questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
tics of the subject, which, in short,
points out that the taste buds on
the tongue are just as important
10 healthy nutrition as the peris-
taltic movements of the large
bowel - Brillat- Savarin devotes
very properly a good deal of space
to the Importance Of dessert in .
meal.
He had met, he said, only one
man Of any eminence who did not
expand over the dessert and that
was Corvisart, the physician of
Napoleon. He ascribed this taci-
turnity to sleepiness due to Corvi-
sart's habit of drinking iced cham.
payne during the body Of the
meal: if he had drunk his cham
payne warm, as Christians should,
according TO NJ. Brillat-Savarin,
Corvisart would have enjoyed the
common habit Of mankind to ex-
pand while enjoying his dessert.
The author also averred that
dessert has a social function-it
holds society together. 1t pro-
notes the happiness and continu-
ance of marriage because many a
man and wife sleep apart and it
is only at table that they are
thrown into a position where in
innate talk, the very kernel of the
happiness of the conjugal state is
allowed its full and lightsome way.
Anecdote, fantasy, pouty and
charming complaints, chronicles
Of the days success and Of the
vagaries Of the neighbors-that
conversational exchange which is
the mortar of married life-are
enhanced over the dessert, per-
haps because dessert, like mortar,
is so liable to be sticky.
These observations are con-
firmed by the most exact expert
ments Of modern scientific physi-
ology - Griitzner fed rats with
foods Of different colors and found
that the successive portions were
arranged in different strata. The
food taken first lay next to the
walls Of the stomach, while the
succeeding portions were arranged
regularly in the interior in a
superimposed concentric fashion.
Cannon showed that the proteins
remain twice as long in the stom-
ach as the carbohydrates, and the
fats many times longer than
either.
Thus the great body building
and energy giving blocks Of a
neal-the soup, the entree and the
fatty gravy and salad oils-go in
first and the stomach begins to
wrestle with them. The dessert
lies on top, the taste and favour
OF it remain pleasantly, it serves
as a buffer between the business
like first part of the meal and pro-
longs the period of satiation and
completion - the hour of charm.
No wonder conversation begins at
this time-the purpose and labor
Of the meal is fulfilled by the meat
and gravy and potatoes. The re-
Taxation is afforded and promoted
by the apple pie or whatever the
dessert is. And then when its
turn comes, when it is at the bot
tom Of the pile it being carbohy-
drate goes out quickly making no
trouble-exit laughing.
Those ladies of the Red Cross
canteens who are so distressed be-
Gauss the soldiers prefer "meat
and potatoes and gravy and apple
pie" and eschew the carrots and
cabbage of vitamin concentration
fame should pause before they
pass judgment The soldier is be-
ing more scientific in his selection
than they. We have already dis
cussed the meat and potatoes of
MS choice. What about the apple
pie?
Roughage we name as first Of
its virtues-it stimulates the large
intestine to proper rhythmic func-
ton. Being dessert it has all the
virtues we have noted above. Be-
sides that apples have nearly as
much Vitamin C (partly destroyed
by cooking) as asparagus, chard,
cole slaw, cucumbers, eggplant,
onions or prunes, three times as
much Vitamin B as carrots, and
more Vitamin A than caulifower.
Apples have calcium, PHOSPHORUS,
iron and potassium. among their
mineral wealth. Cooking renders
apples three or four times as
digestible as they are in the raw