The arts of life : I. Of providing food, II. Of providing cloathing, III. Of providing shelter. Described in a series of letters for the instruction of young persons / by the author of Evenings at home.

  • John Aikin
Date:
1802
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Credit: The arts of life : I. Of providing food, II. Of providing cloathing, III. Of providing shelter. Described in a series of letters for the instruction of young persons / by the author of Evenings at home. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ =0 ] LEXTER III. ON VEGETABLE ARTICLES OF FOOD. My dear Boy, In my lad letter I gave you a gene- ral account of the divifion of vegetable food, called the farinaceous. I now proceed to inform you what other matter in vegetables is nourifhing to man. The firfl: that I fhall mention can- not fail to afford us an agreeable topic. It is the fugary or faccharinc part, which is contained in the juices of fo many plants With us, the fweet juices art chiefly met with in fruits; and thofe, too, not native fruits, but the foreign products of our gardens. Some of our eatable roots alfo pofifefs a -degree of fweetnefs; as beet, turnip, parin ip.