FADS ABOUT EATING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XI, Issue 609, 25 September 1902, Page 20

FADS ABOUT EATING.

Every individual has his or her theories about eating, and many people carry out their theories to an extent which places them in the order of cranks, says the “ New York Press.” Among these cranks are the people who contend that the proper way to “ feed” is to live on one meal a day. Their gastronomic apostle was Dr. George Fordyce, the celebrated anatomist and lecturer on chemistry. The doctor used to eat one meal a day, and one meal only but it was a mighty one. The moment the waiter. announced the doctor’s arrival the cook put a and a-half of rump steak on the fire, and to while awav the time until rhe

steak should be properly broiled, the waiter brought the - doctor some tempt-* ing morsel, like a broiled chicken or a plate of fish. When he had eaten this, Dr. Fordyce drank half of his brandy and then began on the steak. While eating the steak he drank the tankard of ale, and after that the rest of the brandy. The waiter then uncorked the bottle" of port, and the doctor proceeded s‘owly to enjoy it, until it was all gone. He spent an hour and a-half daily at his one meal, and after it returned home to give his lectures on chemistry, which are still quoted as classics of that science. He ate nothing else until the next day, when he returned at the same hour to the same chop-house for the same sort of a meal. Dr. Fordyce lived to be sixty-six years old, and "kept up to his one meal custom to the last.