The Inner Man: Good Things to Eat and Drink and Where to Get Them (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Inner Man: Good Things to Eat and Drink and Where to Get Them Of the word satiety. Certainly he who departs from a well-furnished table without feeling that he has eaten just as much as his appetite calls for, does not deserve to be amply entertained. He who eats more than his appetite demands is a glutton and is rarely found among those who make a study of the pleasures of the table. We have everything to be thankful for in California in regard to the inner man. A clever Statistician has said that of the thirteen hundred million inhabitants Of this globe, only a small portion systematically get enough to eat. The majority of the inhabitants of the world are underfed. How few in San Francisco arise in the morning not knowing where or how they shall get their break fast? In Great Britain, where among the upper classes the art of dining has been carried to its highest perfection, hundreds of thousands behold the morning sun with this problem unsolved in their minds. There is enough wasted in the streets, about the markets, at the wharves, and vegetable stands to provide if collected, for all the hungry tramps the city could muster. And not tainted meats or fish, or poor vegetables, but matter which in the very wantonness of our plenty, has been allowed to fall in the dust of the streets. DO we over-eat in San Francisco? Has the number, excellence and cheapness of our restaurants inculcated this sin? These are questions which may be truthfully answered in the negative. We eat well, but excess is the exception, and not the rule. Among the civilized portions of all society in these times the number of those who over eat is very limited. In the old civilizations of Persia and Rome, and with our forefathers in Great Britain and Northern Europe, gluttony was a prominent if not universal vice among those who could Obtain the materials on which to be gluttonous. The vice is a relic of savagery, Of a social state when food was scarce, or at least uncertain, and men were tempted to gorge themselves in order to compensate for the famines Of the past, and anticipate those that were to come. Then again savages have so little intellectual culture, and so few amusements, that the gratification of the appetite has no limited restraints. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.