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COCKTAIL AND FOOD RECIPES
ing clear alcoholic concoctions forced upon
them.
The brain is the arbiter, the messenger that
carries good news, fair news, or bad news to
the fellow we call "us." The cells telegraph
the brain instantly and constantly concerning
everything they experience. When food-and–
alcohol combinations arrive, the cells telegraph
warmth and good cheer. When alcohol ar–
rives without food, the cells call instantly and
insistently for food or water. Their delicate
membranes have been assaulted; they require
an antidote, a mixing agent. Failing it, they
blister and scald and exude gas. This gas
reacts upon the brain, and dizziness or intoxi–
cation results.
Take food with your drinks, then, if you
would enjoy your drinks and escape penalties.
Fat, weight, with some people, is taken on
rapidly with the drinking of alcoholic bever–
ages. Food
with
the drink, rather than after
it,
will
minimize the weight increase. Food
with the
drink
satisfies the appetite; drink
alone sets up a demand for food and encour–
ages excessive eating in an effort
t~
repair
the damage caused by the liquor.
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