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Allison Pataki Levy
Battle Creek, Michigan Winter 1891
“Budgie,”
Dr. John Kellogg.
“Dr. Kellogg is a Seventh-day Adventist,
the man has been married for decades and has very proudly shared with the world that he and his wife have never…well…consummated their union.”
“To try to treat our sick without addressing the horrid eating habits that caused the illness in the first place would be akin to trying to clean a house by simply emptying the slop jars. We must treat not only the results of illness, but the underlying causes that bring on the original complaints.”
salubrious
Christian Science,
Science and Health.
She spoke long and boldly, warning us that “our ailments come not from the body but from the soul.”
Scarlet fever and then mumps seized my young body,
Postum.
channel the power of the mind. If you want to change your circumstances, then you have to change your attitude.”
Sèvres
ormolu
I could not vote for the president, though I could not even sit on the board of the company that bore my family’s name, I began to hope that, by the time my girls were older, these facts might change.
pannier
“Post Foods?” But Ned shook his head. “That doesn’t encapsulate the volume we have. It has to be something…broader.” “More general,” I mused aloud, still thinking it through. “That’s good!” Ned snapped his fingers, a spark of inspiration lighting his features. “What?” I asked. “That’s it. More general. How about General Foods?” Ned suggested. I considered it. General Foods. Nowhere in that label was the Post name featured. But it was simple and it was accurate, and it gave us room to continue to grow.
“Sea to Lake. Mar-a-Lago,”
arriviste
crenellations.
Moscow Malaria,
Ms. Beale.”
Ms wasn’t used…
“Mission to Moscow,” Maxim said, reading the title aloud. “By Ambassador Joseph Davies.”
Guerlain
American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post.
Marjorie Merriweather Post: The Life Behind the Luxury.
Living Artfully: At Home with Marjorie Merriweather Post,
Joseph Davies’s memoir, Mission to Moscow,
Further suggested reading: Nancy Rubin Stuart, American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post Estella M. Chung, Marjorie Merriweather Post: The Life Behind the Luxury Estella M. Chung, Living Artfully: At Home with Marjorie Merriweather Post Nettie Leitch Major, C. W. Post, the Hour and the Man Joseph E. Davies, Mission to Moscow Mark Kurlansky, Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man Harvey Kaiser, Great Camps of the Adirondacks
