The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-15
NEW FOODS FOUND
IN WAR EMERGENCY
Americans Revising Their
Diet to Meet Situation
Without Compulsion.
WHALE MEAT GOOD
Dozens of Home Products,
From Reindeer to Peanuts,
Are Utilized.

War conditions have had a stimulat
ing effect upon the market for unusual
foods. Foods that have heretofore
been almost unknown have been
brought forth, new uses have been
found for well-known foods and even
new ones have been experimental up
on. Necessity is the mother of inven-
tion," and Americans have turned
their hands to the art of food conser-
vation. This saving spirit has come
easily, and without the S92 imperial
laws, orders and proclamations, deal
ing with the food supply, that Ger
many now has.
Whale meat as a nutritious article
of food was recently demonstrated at
luncheon for members of the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History One
man said; 1T has a gamey flavor;
might be bear meat. It's tender in
spots. and in other spots it's not so
tender. 1t might be liver, but / guess
it is just whale meat"
About 100000 pounds of meat
are available from more than 1000
whales caught yearly on the Pacific
Coast. The meat which is said to be
equal in food value to beef, is now used
chiefly as fertilizer.
Reindeer Meat From Alaska.
From the Northwest, too, will come
the supply of reindeer meat which
Alaska will soon furnish. The first
reindeer were imported from Siberia
in 1892. and in June, 1916, Alaska had
IS herds. numbering S2,151. There are
now nearly 100000 available, and rein
deer meat will be sold on large scale
The market for guinea fowls has
also been increased and the price has
made them as economical as other
poultry Their gamey flavor makes
them very acceptable substitutes for
wild birds at banquets.
Many states have turned their at
tention to the making of domestic |
cheese since the cutting off the foreign |
products. The Swiss and limburgers |
are made, and also new varieties of |
Italian and Greek origin, as the Ro-'
mano, Reggiano and Myzethre, have |
been added. Montana has a sleeps |
milk cheese factory operated by |
Italians. They leased a flock of 600
ewes and took them to mountain
pasture. where they are milked twice
a day. The milk is made into 100
pounds of cheese daily This cheese
is valued for its high quality.
Feterita dasheen and many other
unfamiliar names appear in the list
of new foods. Feterita is a member of
the sorghum family, and yields small
shaped seeds, which make ex-
cellent flour and meal, comparable
with fine white cornmeal 1t is grown
chiefly in the southwestern states.
Banana and casava flour are of
tropical origin. There is finally taro
flour, which is probably obtainable
only in Hawaiian grocery stores
1t is made from the same bulb that
furnishes the material for poi" the /
Hawaiian national dish
Many Products From Bananas. {
Mexico is experimenting with ba- S
mana products and making banana '
-four, starch, vinegar. alcohol, fibers, {
paper and cardboard. The slogan t
Peel thin and win" is being observed, i
for the Mexican department of COM
nerce has devised a machine made
wood for. peeling and i
cutting the fruit. Thus is pre- {
rented the decomposition of the I
'ruit that follows contact with metal |
Here. also, are found crude stills for S
making the beveragesalcohol from the f
,actus plant, the use of which con- G
serves corn and other grains. Several {
concerns are now looking in
o this wasteland crop. a
The usefulness of the peanut is h
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