Eureka Reporter | 1905-03-17 | Page 4 | Get New Foods from Savages

GET NEW FOODS FROM SAVAGES SAVAGE they have taught world to use many delicacies man will eat or more foods in the year 2000 than he eats now said a chemist A movement is on foot among the world s governments to increase the varieties of our foods and every week from somewhere or other a new vegetable or fruit or nut Is added to the international bill of fare it Is by a study of the food of savages that we get our new foods says the week weeks s progress es s savages eat many things we regard as weeds or poisons bu but t which we can refine that is how we got our new delica cies in the past eggplant and toma toes for instance we had never thought of eating till certain peruvian savages showed us the way oats barley and rye originated from weeds that grew on the shores of the medi the buckwheat came from a wild siberian plant melons cucui bers horseradish and onions were weeds of the east the pumpkin was regarded as a poison for a long time and with no little tear fear did some ad venturous person of the past test it as a food turning to the foods of our future we find that the klamath indians alone eat forty kinds of vegetables that are unknown to us lists are testing these vegetables ege tables and are finding hem to be palatable and nutritious among them is the wichai which grows on the margins of the western lakes its stems contain a white pith that eaten raw is as sweet and pleas ant as a lump of milk chocolate then there Is the kotso noka or goose toot foot the goose foot toot bears in august small black seeds these seeds the roast grind and make into cakes and gruel the or yel low water illy Is the klamath a staple food it Is made into bread and into porridge