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26 morsel of food as long as it is possible to retain it without involuntary swallowing. As the morsel is submitted to the chewing process it gradually grows richer in flavor, more delicious to the taste, and the process should be continued until the maximum of this delicacy of flavor has been reached. Not until then is the food ready to be transferred to the stomach—not until then do you really get the richest, most delicious flavor of what you are eating. All those who swallow their food previous to this point, not only miss the rarest pleasure of eating, but they swallow before the food is ready for the juices of the stomach to begin acting upon it. "If we masticate—submit to vigorous jaw action—everything that we take into the mouth, liquid as well as solid, until the nutritive part of it disappears into the stomach through compulsory or involuntary swallowing, and remove from the mouth all fibrous, insoluble and tasteless remainder, we will take