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Page 32
... cooked meat , fish , fowl , and milk solids consists of proteins . In contrast , the protein content of cooked cereals ranges from about 2.5 percent to 10 percent . Cooked legumes - beans , pea- nuts , lentils , peas - fall in the same ...
... cooked meat , fish , fowl , and milk solids consists of proteins . In contrast , the protein content of cooked cereals ranges from about 2.5 percent to 10 percent . Cooked legumes - beans , pea- nuts , lentils , peas - fall in the same ...
Page 120
... cooked on open grills without falling through , and to prepare them on skillets would defeat the purpose of the flight from kitchen drudgery . More important perhaps was that pork had to be cooked longer than beef because of the danger ...
... cooked on open grills without falling through , and to prepare them on skillets would defeat the purpose of the flight from kitchen drudgery . More important perhaps was that pork had to be cooked longer than beef because of the danger ...
Page 158
... cooked food throughout the day . " They seem to eat off and on all day long since they work rapidly for long hours at a stretch , and the cooked morsels are constantly before them . One gets a pleasant odour of food being cooked , when ...
... cooked food throughout the day . " They seem to eat off and on all day long since they work rapidly for long hours at a stretch , and the cooked morsels are constantly before them . One gets a pleasant odour of food being cooked , when ...
Contents
ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 13 |
TWO Meat Hunger | 19 |
THREE The Riddle of the Sacred Cow | 47 |
Copyright | |
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