"Many do not feel that this is a matter of duty, hence they do not try to prepare food properly. This can be done in a simple, healthful, and easy manner, without the use of lard, butter, or flesh meats. Skill must be united with simplicity. To do this, women must read, and then patiently reduce what they read to practice. Many are suffering because they will not take the trouble to do this. I say to such: It is time for you to rouse your dormant energies and read up. Learn how to cook with simplicity, and yet in a manner to secure the most palatable and healthful food. 1T 681.1"
"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."
Both passages emphasize doing everything, including eating, in a way that honors God/promotes well-being. EGW applies the principle of 1 Cor 10:31 to the specific context of food preparation.
"Because it is wrong to cook merely to please the taste, or to suit the appetite, no one should entertain the idea that an impoverished diet is right. Many are debilitated with disease, and need a nourishing, plentiful, well- cooked diet. We frequently find graham bread heavy, sour, and but partially baked. This is for want of interest to learn, and care to perform, the important duty of cook. Sometimes we find gem cakes, or soft biscuit, dried, not baked, and other things after the same order. And then cooks will tell you they can do very well in the old style of cooking, but, to tell the truth, their families do not like graham bread; that they would starve to live in this way. 1T 681.2"
"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."
Both passages connect eating with a larger purpose. 1 Cor 10:31 says to do everything to the glory of God, and EGW applies this to cooking and eating, emphasizing that even these seemingly mundane activities should be done with care and intention.
"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s."
Both passages connect the care of the body with honoring God. EGW's passage emphasizes the importance of proper nutrition and cooking for maintaining a healthy body, which aligns with the principle of glorifying God in one's body as stated in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20.
I have said to myself: I do not wonder at it. It is your manner of preparing food that makes it so unpalatable. To eat such food would certainly give one the dyspepsia. These poor cooks, and those who have to eat their food, will gravely tell you that the health reform does not agree with them. The stomach has not power to convert poor, heavy, sour bread into good; but this poor bread will convert a healthy stomach into a diseased one. Those who eat such food know that they are failing in strength. Is there not a cause? Some of these persons call themselves health reformers, but they are not. They do not know how to cook. They prepare cakes, potatoes, and graham bread, but there is the same round, with scarcely a variation, and the system is not strengthened. They seem to think the time wasted which is devoted to obtaining a thorough experience in the preparation of healthful, palatable food. Some act as though that which they eat were lost, and anything they could toss into the stomac…
"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"
Both passages address the importance of caring for one's body. 1 Corinthians 6:19 states that the body is a temple, implying a need for respect and care. EGW's passage discusses the impact of poor food choices on health, aligning with the idea of treating the body as a temple.
"Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:"
Both passages address the importance of moderation and avoiding unhealthy eating habits. Proverbs 23:20 warns against being a 'riotous eater of flesh,' while EGW's passage discusses the negative effects of poorly prepared food and unhealthy diets.