Diet of flowers
A new cult is arising among London’s eccentrics, the chief temple of which is in Soho, and its raison d’etre is a somewhat neglected phaso of vegetarianism. Devotees confine themselves, at a,II events ofiicially, to a diet of flowers. It sounds very romantic, but there is no medical ruling as yet on the vitamin properties of such sustenance. Most of the dishes are stews —floral in substance, but hardly distinguishable in taste from common vegetables. One item of the menu, of which one hears glowing account, i 3 pickled rosebuds. It strikes one as the sort of food society debutantes might inhale. It is almost as bad, in. its vandalisin', way, as the nightingales’ tongues that used to be such a delicacy iu Homo of the Caesarian epoch. But even staid Victorians, of course, drank dandelion beer.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 247, 23 October 1934, Page 2
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140Diet of flowers Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 247, 23 October 1934, Page 2
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