A BOOK OF SALADS
from THE EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL
Hygienizing
Suggestions for A
BOOK OF SALADS
Dear GetWell Friends & Salad Adventurists & Adventuresses! I Salute You!
#1 HAVE A DISHFUL OF HISTORY FOR DINNER! In this amazing collection of gourmet recipes from a chef connoisseur and gourmet artist of a hotsy-totsy hotel for the rich and famous, you are also reading and tasting the dishes of history. Not just American history of 1926, mind you, but the history of "sallats," as far back as the 1500s! The more you study and visualize and then try each recipe, its ingredients, its preparation, its layout and design, its wholesome tastiness, and the teachings and epigrams that accompany it, the more you will appreciate Aronld Shircliffe and the love he held in his heart for Health Seekers and for the health of The Nation! You may even feel a little saddened that he lived in another time and another place and that you cannot send him your "Salad Salutations" of appreciation. Such is the fate of forerunners and pioneers. Their work and the soul of their contributions travel through time to touch others, while their bodies return to the dust.
#2 SERVE YOUR SALADS WITH TRUE TRANSITION, HYGIENIZED SALAD DRESSINGS. Approximately 600 salads are presented in your original book. About 100 are so deep into SAD food, you may as well take a pen and just cross them out when you come to them. And I have omitted all of Arnold's salad dressing recipes. His dressing recipes were just too toxic to even include. Instead, I have provided for you the many recipes straight from Chapter 10 of The Health Seekers' YearBook. Remember, a salad dressing can be as simple as just some lemon juice or orange juice or any juice! And, of course, fruit salads don't really need a dressing at all. (For "Good GetWell Measure," I have also included The YearBook Chapter 10 in its entirety with the 25 Main Dish Vegetable Salads and the 25 Main Dish Fruit Salads.)
It's Hygienically correct that Arnold has page 242 whereon he warns us of the "powerful irritating effects" of some salad dressing ingredients. He teaches us that most seldom experience these effects for the first many years of their lives, because the delicate mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract are supplied with comparatively few nerves of sensations. One does not experience the toxic effects and consequent pathology until, usually, years into a condimented lifestyle. But in time, these effects add up to a significant remote source of Toxemia. Arnold quotes Hygienist Ella Kellog when he further reminds us that toxic salad dressings also... "create an artificial appetite, similar to the incessant craving of the chronic dyspeptic whose irritable stomach is seldom satisfied. Drinking alcoholic drinks and the excessive use of condiments are two of the greatest causes of gluttony, since they remove the sense of satiety by which Nature says: 'Enough!'" But it's odd that Arnold then provides salad dressing recipes loaded with these very toxic foods, Hygienically speaking. Keeping in mind that he was working at a conventional hotel, I suppose the leisure class whom he served demanded such "salmugundy excitation!" I have spared you these recipes and provided The YearBook's, instead, Dear GetWell Friends.
#3 MOST RECIPES ALREADY USE ALL RAW INGREDIENTS. DO SUBSTITUTE RAW INGREDIENTS FOR COOKED, OR OTHERWISE PROCESSED, WHENEVER POSSIBLE. And note that it is almost always possible! Except for foods that absolutely must be eaten cooked (such as artichokes and eggplant), you can always substitute raw. Remember, he was writing in 1926. It may have been impossible to get fresh produce. But certainly, whenever he specifies, for instance, canned pears, you can use fresh.
