ABSTRACT
We feed off plants and animals. This is why everyone before me in their books about food has begun with cereals, because in these is that most useful nourishment of bread. So throughout my discussion in the first book of the present work I examined both wheats and barleys – that is einkorn and emmer – and added what are referred to as pulses and legumes. In this book I felt it important to move on to all the other foods which we enjoy from plants, and then to all the foods derived from animals that are particularly valuable to humans. The logic of this seems sound.
