Much more from Dan Piraro – here.
Can you imagine living without salads?
In the 1500s Queen Catherine (Catherine Parr – 1512–1548 – sixth wife of Henry the Eighth of England), would send a servant by boat from London, down the River Thames & across the English Channel, to France – to get a ‘take-away salad’ & bring it back to her!
~ The simple fact of the introduction of the growth of green vegetables into these islands was sufficient to do for the people what all the art of the doctors could not do – improve their health and remove pestilence from amongst them. It was not until the end of the reign of Henry the Eighth (died 1547) that any salads, carrots, turnips, and other edible roots were produced in England. The wealthy had imported vegetables before that time from Holland and Flanders, and Queen Catherine, when she wished for a salad, was obliged to send for it by special messenger to the Continent. ~ – Mr. Gibson Ward, F.R.Hist.S. – in – The Cause and Spread of Leprosy.
UK Vegetarian Society stalwart W. Gibson Ward – an 1874 engraving
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The W. Gibson Ward quote appears in –
Salads; Their Uses As Food & Medicine, With 50 Useful Salad Recipes – Albert Broadbent – 1909
– The Ernest Bell Library has an original copy of this booklet .
Salads; Their Uses As Food & Medicine, With 50 Useful Salad Recipes – Albert Broadbent – 1909
The booklet to read online – here.
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About Albert Broadbent – Salad Promoter!
Educating people about salads, we like this strategy very much.
Gorgeous salads featured prominently on continental vegan restaurant menus from as early as the 1920s.
Example – La Basconnaise – a salad of the French vegan anarchists – here – at the bottom of the page.
Albert’s recipes – they start here in the booklet – are comparatively simple, and they are heavy with eggs & dairy – ……but he is foraging, ……he is recommending herb gardens…… – ‘revolutionary stuff’ for Edwardian Britain!
I would have loved to have had such choice, in the 1960s, when I was a child being fed totally unmentionable items.
Albert never reached the stage of ‘vegan’, but he did admirable work, promoting ‘non-flesh eating’ from the early 1890s until his death in 1912.
We come across his name regularly in vegetarian magazines, journals & related news reports from those years.
~ Albert Broadbent became the Secretary of the Vegetarian Society (Manchester) in 1895. He had already been actively involved, for at least two years, with the Vegetarian Federal Union which was attempting to bring all vegetarian societies together. He is recorded as having attended all VFU meetings from 1893, in several parts of the UK, and was present in Liverpool to see off the delegates to the International Vegetarian Congress in Chicago, in July 1893, and there again to welcome them home. ~ – more – http://www.ivu.org/
He was also instrumental in launching the International Vegetarian Union (IVU) in 1908 – report – here.
Albert was: –
# International co-ordinator of the 1st World Vegetarian Congress, 1908
# Member of the provisional IVU Committee, 1908-1909
# Organiser of the 1909 IVU Congress
# Member of the Congress Organising Committee, 1910
Extract from the 1908 IVU Congress Report –
~ A good deal of interest was aroused by a description by Mr. Broadbent of the very practical work undertaken in Great Britain ; such as the work done in London by the London Vegetarian Association in providing cheap meals for school children, the lectures and cookery demonstrations; the success in inducing steamship companies and railways to cater for vegetarians; the publication of simple and easy recipes; the operations of the Vegetarian Society’s Summer holidays; the establishment of restaurants at exhibitions, the Cookery lectures given under the Education Committees of Glasgow, Manchester and Salford. ~ – more – http://www.ivu.org/
Below – Albert and his vegetarian family, photographed in 1895 when he became the Secretary of the Vegetarian Society, based in Manchester.
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