“Good cooking is the basis of civilization. . . . The inventor of a good soup did more for his race than the maker of any creed. The doctrines of total depravity and endless punishment were born of bad cooking and dyspepsia.” So well did he eat that a journalist in the Oakland Evening Tribune commented on what a “spectacular auto da fé” his body would have made had he lived in a different era and ended up burned at the stake.
