DIET OF FLOWERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21396, 20 October 1934, Page 6 (Supplement)

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 phase of vegetarianism. Devotees confine themselves, at all events officially, 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, is pickled rosebuds. It strikes one as the sort of food society debutantes might inhale. It is almost as bad, in its vandalistic way, as the nightingales' tongues that used to be such a delicacy in Home of the Caesarian epoch. But even staid Victorians, of course, drank dandelion beer.