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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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80. your eyes. Then there were those times at dinners at which there was scarcely anything at all or even nothing which I should have taken, so I had to make - I thought - some pretence of eating some of the lesser offensive foods. Other hostesses more thoughtfully prepared special dishes with extraordinarily good judgement in regard to ingredients. Once in a while, however, the very special mashed potatoes were seasoned with pepper as well as butter and I found myself in a knot in the twinkling of an eye, so to speak. Frequently I took my own melba toast and begged a glass of milk where with to supplement it. But of more recent times I have usually eaten a fairly substantial meal of my own kind of food before going forth to any tea or party. I soon learned that if I were substantially fortified beforehand with sufficient of the bland foods I could take, and the stomach was well packed with what it required; the desire for cakes, ham, sandwiches, spiced peaches and heavy deserts and other forbiddens was wholly dissipated. My husband was named the Albert Kahn Travelling-Fellow from the United States for the year 1928-1929 - a five-thousand dollar cash award in the form of a letter of credit. A first stipulation of the fellowship was to travel around the world, make out
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80. your eyes. Then there were those times at dinners at which there was scarcely anything at all or even nothing which I should have taken, so I had to make - I thought - some pretence of eating some of the lesser offensive foods. Other hostesses more thoughtfully prepared special dishes with extraordinarily good judgement in regard to ingredients. Once in a while, however, the very special mashed potatoes were seasoned with pepper as well as butter and I found myself in a knot in the twinkling of an eye, so to speak. Frequently I took my own melba toast and begged a glass of milk where with to supplement it. But of more recent times I have usually eaten a fairly substantial meal of my own kind of food before going forth to any tea or party. I soon learned that if I were substantially fortified beforehand with sufficient of the bland foods I could take, and the stomach was well packed with what it required; the desire for cakes, ham, sandwiches, spiced peaches and heavy deserts and other forbiddens was wholly dissipated. My husband was named the Albert Kahn Travelling-Fellow from the United States for the year 1928-1929 - a five-thousand dollar cash award in the form of a letter of credit. A first stipulation of the fellowship was to travel around the world, make out
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