Historic (rec.food.historic) Discussing and discovering how food was made and prepared way back when--From ancient times down until (& possibly including or even going slightly beyond) the times when industrial revolution began to change our lives.

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Default Cafe Vegetaria, Edinburgh 1911

Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:

Was there a
> widespread vegetarian movement before WW1 that produced similar
> establishments elsewhere?
>


There seems to have been a reasonably well developed Vegetarian Society
in London and several restaurants.

Vegetarian food was, for example, available at the Inns of Court.

See M K Gandhi's (Yes, that Gandhi) autobiography 'My Experiments With
The Truth' for more details, he was the Vegetarian Society secretary in
London in about 1890.

--
William Black

"Any number under six"

The answer given by Englishman Richard Peeke when asked by the Duke of
Medina Sidonia how many Spanish sword and buckler men he could beat
single handed with a quarterstaff.
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