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'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.