Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — Why We Eat Soup First. [ARTICLE]

Why We Eat Soup First.

It has been remarked that the habit of beginning dinner with soup doubtless grew out of the fact that aliment in this readily digested form soon enters the blood and rapidly refreshes the hungry man. In two or three minutes after taking a plate of good warm consomme the feeling of weariness disappears and the temper is apt to be greatly improved. The custom of taking a glass of sherry before dinner is spoken of by Sir Henry Thompson as a "gastronomical and physiological blunder.”