I’ve been visiting with my mother who is 104 and had time to go through some of the archives left behind by her father. He emigrated solo from Sweden at age 14, literally rode the rails around the midwest working on farms, ended up on the east coast at age 18. The story goes on from there…
Anyway I picked up this encyclopedia he had pencilled in “1896” which would have been his 18th year. I am guessing this book was the extent of his education as he kicked around. He and two friends bought a merry go round that they travelled around the northeast with for a while. Eventually he built houses, farmed, had a nursery business, married and raised 4 daughters.
Anyway, I take a lot of inspiration from his story, but that’s not the reason for this post. I wanted to share the nutrition guidance from the 1890’s encyclopedia, here it is:
Kinda makes you wonder how they came up with those numbers for digestion time!
Did they have to recruit “volunteers” for their research?!?
Hubert, Ophelia, it hath been an hour and a quarter since last you consumed the mutton chops. Henceforth please commence with sticking thine fingers downeth thine throats.
Following the nutritional theme, this is the grass soup I had in the Alps. Actually quite tasty (if you like the taste of hay). My recollection is the digestion time was ultra fast, a little too fast if you know what I mean. I gained an understanding of why cow pastures are so messy.
