Man’s Eating Customs

Abstract

Are you a creature of habit? Do you resist anything new in food? Are you in a gastronomic rut? Do you eat just those things your mother used to cook? Day after day, year after year, do you tread the tiresome trail of steak, gravy, and potatoes, little dreaming of the appetizing side trails, never knowing the challenge of America’s great variety of succulent meats, game, and wondrously varied sea food?

Naturally temperaments vary, as do tastes in food. Let us consider the man of habit. He rises early in the morning and already has the day planned. A strict disciplinarian, he keeps all appointments and always on time. But when he sits down to dine what does he eat? Beefsteak or roast beef, of course, with potatoes and one or two other vegetables. Just good plain food. He has no flair for any dishes with touch of the unusual.