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Everyday Foods in War Time

CHAPTER VI
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FATS AND VITAMINES In the days of the ancient Romans vegetable oils were prized for food and butter was used for cosmetics.

In America today we are asking what is to become of us if we cannot have butter to eat! Such are the fashions in food.

"June butter" is one of our gastronomic traditions.

The sample in the restaurant may have none of the firm creamy texture and delicate aromatic flavor of the product of the old spring house; but as long as it is labeled butter we try to bring our sensations into line with our imaginations.

For the real butter flavor there is no more a substitute than there is for the aroma of coffee.


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