New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-27
RAW FOOD ADVOCATES
Cooking Habit" Makes SlaUes of
Women, Sag authors of NezO Book.

The uncocked food system sounds quite alluring
presented by Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Christian In
"Uncooked Foods cThe Health Culture Com
pany. New-York) The ordinary foods OF civilized
man. roasted. toasted CREASED, sweetened. soured.
fermented. raised. mashed Up wet Up. dried out,
fixed, mixed. mashed. smashed bruised. pounded.
shredded. etc." contrasted. greatly to their
pictorial disadvantage. with purple grapes swing
ing in bowers Of green; nuts that have rtpened
Sin the top Of mountain tree" fed by juices that
have been filtered through hundred feet OF clean.
white woods and apples peaches ''reddened.
ripened and finished nursed in the lap OF nature.
rocked in her ethereal cradle and kissed from the
odorous blossom of infancy on to maturity by the
soft beams of the life giving sun"
These things say the authors. have been fur
nished by supreme intelligence and sown
with prodigal hand over the face OF the earth
Man has become the beneficiary thereof, and none
of his work and puny efforts can improve them
One of the pleasantest prospects suggested by
the use OF uncooked food is the emancipation OF
from domestic slavery. The language used
by these writer's about that sacred institution the
home IS equal TO anything that Mrs. Charlotte
Perkins Gilman employed. Instead Of being a
queen in the domestic realm, they find woman TO
be Imprisoned vassal." doomed to confne-
ment and labor but little lighter than that which
society puts upon the criminal. For hour IN
the morning she stands over miniature furnace
breathing the poisonous odor OF broiling hesh'
and then she spends another hour among the
grease and slime Of pots and dishes"
THE fires OF the morning are hardly out before
those Of kindled and the labors from
luncheon often lap into the evening and those
Of the evening into the night The throne over
which the woman dreamed OF welding her Queenly
soeptre has been transformed into fiery furnace
gtlded with greasy pots and plates. blood and
bones. over which she has unfurled the dishrag
and. by the common custom OF her country. II
waves over her helpless head ensign OF her
rank and profession under which she is really a
slave
From all this. It is argued. women would be de-
Hvered by the abolition OF the cooking habit
An icebox and a pantry would constitute the whole
vate home. as well as OF the largest eating places
In the city, and the preparation Of food, instead OF
being the most laborious and nerve destroying
occupation known to man. would be OF the
simplest, easiest and pieasantest"
The uncooked food bill OF fare does not consist OF
raw potatoes and beefsteak. For the benefit OF
those who still in the bonds Of dietetc inquity,
recipes for preparing meats without the use OF fire
are given, but the reader Is made TO understand
that this is temporary concession to human
weakness. In the ideal society contemplated by
Mr.: and Mrs. Christian mills for Smelling pecans
viii take the place of slaughter houses and people
VIII i've on nuts fruits eggs, milk honey uIl,
cereals can be eaten raw.
The vegetables would be prepared for the table
oy grinding or cut into cubes for sa!ads- the
prepared by grinding nuts and grains together and
drying them in the sun or by means Of electric
The following Is sample menu for one day:
Breakfast-One red apple, two ounces OF pecan
cream; one glass Of milk
Lunoheon-Two Bartlett pears one ounce Of
OF pgnolias cold slaw. with olive oil: one cake OF
unflred bread, four prunes. with thick cream;
sweet Ts9,t butter tgr glass Of esggnog. - -.
mixed nut meats vegetable salad. one cake OF ur-
very ripe red banana with thick cream: pint OF
milk.