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In the late 1800s, John Kellogg Harvey, a Seventh Day Adventist that practiced spiritual vegetarianism, opened Battle Creek Sanitarium, a health spa that featured enemas a-plenty, exercise and a special diet. That diet included peanut butter, which Kellogg invented and promoted as a replacement for regular butter (picture sandwiches with mayo and peanut butter, tomato and peanut butter, etc.). It also included cornflakes, another Kellogg invention that soon became a breakfast staple for the country.

Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, Vol. I p. 593, Vol. II p.246

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Amuse Bouche: Noun. Etymology: French: literally, entertains the mouth. A small, complimentary appetizer served at the beginning of a meal to awaken the taste buds. Leena Eats definition: a quick shot of gastronomic knowledge for the brain.

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Many health food movements in the U.S. were inspired by vegetarianism. In the late 1700s-early 1800s, a minister by the name of Sylvester Graham decided to dedicate himself to promoting healthy eating and God by preaching the gospel of vegetarianism around the country. His biggest development was a high bran flour called graham, which was made into a thin flat bread known as the graham cracker. It was originally a health food, but today is a key ingredient in the popular U.S. campfire dessert, S’mores.

Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, p.593

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Amuse Bouche: Noun. Etymology: French: literally, entertains the mouth. A small, complimentary appetizer served at the beginning of a meal to awaken the taste buds. Leena Eats definition: a quick shot of gastronomic knowledge for the brain.

~LTG!