IN HOW TO COOK A WOLF, MFK Fisher gives the best dietary advice I have read. She says: “Balance the day, not each meal in the day.” She explains that we can still eat healthfully without trying to get fruit juice, hot or cold cereal, scrambled eggs with bacon, and buttered toast packed into the first meal of the day, and soup, beef, mashed potatoes, lima beans, and Waldorf salad packed into the second, which her contemporaries were.
Here is her further guidance: “Breakfast then can be toast. It can
