A few simple vegetables, fruits, and nuts--these permitted the soul to expand, to attain harmony with the infinite, until one came to choose only the best among ideals and human associates.

But she learned that she must in this case compromise, for a boy demanding meat would get it in one place if not another.

If not at the guarded Penniman table, then at the low resort next to Pegleg McCarron's of one T-bone Tommy, where they commonly devoured the carcasses of murdered beasts and made no secret of it.
He even rebelled at fabrications, highly extolled in the gospel of clean eating, which were meant to placate the baser minded by their resemblances to meat--things like nut turkey and mock veal loaf and leguminous chicken and synthetic beefsteak cooked in pure vegetable oils.

These he scorned the more bitterly for their false pretense, demanding plain meat and a lot of it.

The nations cited by Winona that had thrived and grown strong on the produce of the fields left him unimpressed.