Word: beefsteaks
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Shortage Reportage. In Kansas City, Mo., somebody broke into Ernie Mehl's auto, made off with a dog bone. In Brook lyn, N. Y., Daniel Tierney was haled into court for lambasting his wife with a beefsteak...
Ascetic Sadist. Globular Alfred ("Hitch") Hitchcock has lately become an oblate spheroid by jettisoning some 90 Ib. of flesh. (His starting weight was 295 Ib., his favorite food, beefsteak.) But asceticism has not reduced Hitchcock's abilities as a humorist, raconteur, deadpan artist and the greatest director of cinema thrillers. At a large stag dinner party, when his turn came to enrich the traditional ambience of brandy & cigars with an off-color story, he murmured diffidently: "I have a story, but I'd best not tell it because it's rather long." The clamor...
Whatever it did to other people, this news last week did not depress U.S. biochemists. Their researches had discovered many substitutes for meat, some of them only a little less tasty than beefsteak and fully as rich in protein. (The Harvardmen found that only" a tenth of an individual's minimum daily protein requirement need be animal protein, i.e., meat, eggs, milk...
...almost two years a notably thorough analysis of possible meat substitutes has been conducted at Yale by Botanist Paul Rufus Burkholder. He and others have found a number which on almost every food count (protein, vitamins, calcium, carbohydrates) are as good as or better than beefsteak; even whole wheat compares well with meat. Some substitutes recommended by Professor Burkholder...
Soybeans. Rivaling meat in protein and other food elements, the edible varieties of soybeans can be served in a great variety of dishes, from milk shakes to steak (properly prepared, minced soybeans may sometimes be mistaken for meat loaf). Soybeans are only about a fourth as expensive as beefsteak...