tasty foods are evidence that man lives to eat as well as 

 eats to live. 



The junior author holds that in time of war one should 

 not indulge in unneeded pleasures, and that the nation should 

 plan its food strategy on the basis of eating to live rather 

 than living to eat. The senior author holds that since civilians 

 have been deprived of so many of their other pleasures, they 

 should get a higher proportion of their pleasure from eating. 



TABLE 1. CIVILIAN CONSUMPTION OF VARIOUS FOODS 

 PER CAPITA, 1935-9 



* Excluding butter. 



The difference is probably one of age as well as point of view. 

 Youth finds greatest pleasure in all forms of physical effort, 

 begrudging the time spent for eating and sleeping. Older peo- 

 ple are less able to indulge in physical activity and derive 

 more pleasure from the pleasant sensations of seeing, smell- 

 ing, and consuming delicious food. The senior author con- 

 fesses that his judgment may be biased because for more 

 than twenty-five years he has been wedded to "the best cook 

 west of the Hudson," who serves food so attractively that it 

 would raise the eyebrows of Oscar of the Waldorf. To reduce 



