Do you prefer meats or vegetables? Elaborate dishes or simple ones? Whatever your taste in food, recent studies have proved that the kind of food you choose reveals, to a great degree, your true personality...
The wife of a certain employee spent most of her night awake, thinking about what she would serve to the head of the department in which her husband works, who was invited to dinner at their home the following evening. Her ingenuity yielded several appetizing varieties of assorted dishes, but she noticed that her guest left the table hungry, and her husband likewise — for she had served unusual dishes, and it had never crossed her mind that her guest was afraid to eat what was unfamiliar to him. As for her, her pain was great at the utter failure she met with, even though she is a skilled cook with long experience in preparing all kinds of appetizing dishes.
The months passed while our friend pondered how to make up for her failure and prove to her husband's chief that she was capable of pleasing her guests... So she ventured to invite him to dinner a second time, and this time she served him cutlets with potatoes and fruit pie — and her success was dazzling...
Our individual personality has a great influence on our habits in the foods we take; and these habits, in turn, reveal to a large extent the truth of that personality...
The Social Survey Committee for the study of eating habits in America carried out a broad study of many members of the public, of the foods they like and dislike, and was astonished at the great disparity of taste among members of a single people. Its study proved that the kind of food a person likes reveals his true personality to a large degree: is he a person
who loves formalities, or simplicity; is he easygoing of nature, or complicated; conceited and withdrawn into himself, or helpful and loving toward others; is he ambitious, and what are his aims?!
The committee found that people who do strenuous work, such as mountain climbers, like to eat meat, while reformers incline toward eating vegetables; the nervous of temperament prefer light foods, while the emotional resort to sweets or alcohol; as for warm-hearted housewives, they devote themselves to feeding their guests more than they need.
Place your order!! Let us suppose, by way of
amusement, that you entered a restaurant and found on the menu the six meals below, all at one price. Which of them would you order? And what is the second choice you would prefer?? Your taste discloses some of the influences in your personality. Turn to page (50), which explains the meaning of your order.
The Menu
1 - Assorted appetizers Mutton stew A cake with
liqueur inside
2 - Pea soup Roast veal with string beans Potatoes, then chocolate ice cream
3 - Fish Cutlet with fried potatoes Apple pie
4 - Tomato juice A plate of vegetables with eggs Fruit compote
5 - Eggs à la russe Kofta on skewers Fruit
6 - Cream of vegetable soup Chicken cooked in cream Custard
Among the people the committee studied were a married couple who prefer to eat "impromptu," as the