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Press, 1 June 1977, Page 22

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GREAT OAKS . . .

A' recent news item told us of a claim by two biochemists to have found a cheap and simple way of making food from wood. The report says that the type of food involved is animal fodder, but this must surely be only a first step. The dav cannot be far off when the process will be iefined to the point where wooden food will be manufactured for consumption by humans. Not that the discovery is all that revolutionary. We ourselves have always manaeed u"de rcook our carrots to a degree sufficient lu

n ensure that the central o core of the carrot has the d quality and taste of pary tide board. But that n achievement, on reflecs tion. amounts to making - wood out of food; the re- •, verse of the process e which the biochemists i- have effected. n Once we reach the * stage at which whole for- ! ests are being planted e and felled to satisfy the - appetites of gourmets and guzzlers, a whole ■ new series of skills will i . be required of disi criminating eaters. What ■ wine, for example, would 1 you order wjth crumbed 1 > poplar cutlets? Can you,*’

1 as a gourmet, afford to ■be seen eating elm-and- ■ chips out of a newspaper? : How long will it take to ■ marinate the average : piece of three-by-four? ■ And what about waiters? > When you order a plate of Pinus radiata, mediumrare. and ask the w °r : to go easy on the needles, can you be sure he will do so? One thing is certain. In restaurants throughout! the country, the tune most frequently employed ■ to lull diners into a sen-! sation of anticipatory ■ enjoyment will be “Wooden It Be Loverly.” |