It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He was a wise man who invented beer.
My father was a doctor.
I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.
I remember how my dad was so into herbal solutions and health food well before that stuff became popular.
I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.
I was mixing iced tea and lemonade in my kitchen since as long as I can remember. It wasn't until some time in the early 1960s that it became associated with me publicly.
My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.