A BOOK OF SALADS
from THE EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL
Hygienizing
Suggestions for A BOOK OF SALADS
#4 IF YOU ARE PRESENTLY COMMITTED TO EATING "ALL RAW," PLEASE, NEVER COMPROMISE YOURSELF FOR THE SAKE OF A RECIPE! Throw the salad out if it is built around cooked food and if you cannot come up with a pleasing substitution.
#5 BRING IN FOODS ARNOLD NEVER THOUGHT OF USING TO ADD EVEN MORE LIFE TO THE ADVENTURE! One of the beauties of this A BOOK OF SALADS is that Arnold uses such simple, common, everyday foods. His food choices are far less exotic and fewer in variety than the foods used in my menus in The Health Seekers' YearBook. So, with so many more foods in the stores and at our fingertips today, you can personalize his salads, improving on them. For instance, Arnold was just not into sprouts at all! And sprouts add such a whimsical, decorative touch as a "nest" or as a serendipitous garnish! Also, bring in the wide vriety of dried fruits!
#6 VISUALIZE AND "IMAGINATE" AS YOU READ THE SALAD RECIPE: EACH DISH IS A WORK OF ART. I have to admit that this can be tricky. In the 3 pages of salad recipes I have provided in this mailing, I have Hygienized Arnold's presentation slightly. As I have devoured the entire book, visualizing as I went, I must say that you "get the hang of imaginating" after awhile. And as you do, you realize that a bag of gems lay in your lap! You will never need another salad making book, that's for sure. So VISUALIZE. He has a work of art in mind for each.
#7 FORGET THE CREAM CHEESE AND THE DAIRY. You don't need them. Arnold was very fond of using cream cheese put into a squeezing apparatus so he could make cake decorator's designs. We Hygienists can live without toxic designs. I did make some stiff avocado dressing and, separately, some nut butters and put them in the cookie spritzer and come up with some pretty cute, amusing, and amazing whimsy, I must admit. It's a lot of work or a lot of FUN however you choose to look at it.
#8 PEEL YOUR GRAPES AND TOMATOES IF YOU WANT! Remember, it's a very fancy hotel. And the rich are full of pretension. Eating a peeled grape makes them feel rich as a Roman with slaves. We certainly won't peel ours! The peeling is where loads of nutrition dwell! Likewise, there is no need to bleach your lettuce or marinate anything!
#9 AS ARNOLD SUGGESTS, DOUBLE OR TRIPLE HIS RECIPE IF THE SALAD IS TO BE A MAIN MEAL, RATHER THAN AN APPETIZER.
#10 SUBSTITUTE HYGIENIC PROTEIN FOR SAD PROTEIN IN THE 100 MEAT-CHEESE-EGG BASED SALADS. SEE IF YOU STILL HAVE A GOOD SALAD LEFT.
#11 SUBSTITUTE HYGIENIC GARNISHES FOR TOXIC GARNISHES. Fine-shredded, bright-colored veggies make great "garniture," as do the sprouts. A fresh flower or two makes a breath-taking, festive, or romantic "festoon." (Don't you love these words?) Use red pepper strips, instead of pimentos. Use pickling cukes, instead of pickles. Use grapes instead of olives. Use carrot rounds instead of olive rings. Use tiny-diced veggies or chopped nuts instead of chopped egg yolk. Take little cookie cutters to thin, flat slices of fruits and veggies for fanciful "figurettes." Make melon balls and avo-balls instead of cheese balls. Use a fresh cherry instead of a maraschino. Use shredded veggies instead of shredded cheese. And forget the chocolate truffles, altogether! You as The Garnisher or Garnishette will be the delight of The Salad Adventurer or Adventuresses! Have a Salutary Salad Sojourn, Dear GetWell Friends. Arnold & I Send Our Love through Time and Space on These Few Pages! Pass It On. Heal The World Make It a Better Place.
