'It is beneficial to one's health not to be carnivorous. The strongest animals, such as the bull, are vegetarians. Look at me. I have ten times as much good health and energy as a meat eater.'
So said George Bernard Shaw, a vegetarian and also a man much concerned about his weight: the calories in each of his meals had to be carefully weighted and the total accurately calculated.
His cook-housekeeper, Mrs Laden, looked after him for the sixteen years before his death in 1943 at the age of ninety-four. These are the recipes that made up the menus she devised for him - all delicious, satisfying, and all conforming to his standards of vegetarianism, low calory count and economy.
'It is beneficial to one's health not to be carnivorous. The strongest animals, such as the bull, are vegetarians. Look at me. I have ten times as much good health and energy as a meat eater.'
So said George Bernard Shaw, a vegetarian and also a man much concerned about his weight: the calories in each of his meals had to be carefully weighted and the total accurately calculated.
His cook-housekeeper, Mrs Laden, looked after him for the sixteen years before his death in 1943 at the age of ninety-four. These are the recipes that made up the menus she devised for him - all delicious, satisfying, and all conforming to his standards of vegetarianism, low calory count and economy.