Medicine: Food & Wisdom

To 50 eminent British physicians and surgeons gathered at the Dorchester in swank Mayfair last week, its earnest French Chef Maitre Emile Aymoz delivered himself weightily—in French. Most of the grave doctors later checked up on his discourse in a handsomely printed English translation headed The Chef's Work for Humanity.

Boomed Humanity's Emile Aymoz in part:

"Wellington used to say that Napoleon lost his Waterloo on the playing fields of Eton, but Napoleon's victors have been losing theirs ever since, on their own dining-room tables!"

With rising passion, Maitre Aymoz got into...

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