"FLETCHERISED" FOOD.
Horace Fletcher, who died recently at the ago of 69, started the /whole world "chewing" food about fifteen years ago, and added a new word, "fletcherising," to the dictionary. There was nothing- new in the idea,. for Luigi Cornaro and Benjamin Franklin had already advocated the same-thing, and Gladstone advised ' his children to "chew each morsel of food at least thirty-two times;" but. Fletcher's; book, "The New Glutton," had an extraordinary sale, having been reprinted no less than.; ten times. One o£ his best known experimente was on the midway section of the ordinary garden young onion commonly called "shallot," which he found required seven hundred and twenty-two mastications. - "After the tussle," lie assures us, "the young onion left no odour upon the breath, and joined tho happy family in the stomach as.if it had been of cornstarch softness and con- ; sistaicy." , ' . "• '
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 10
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