THE FREEDOM WAY
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"Supper: two slices of bread soaked in milk and fried brown
on' each side in salt pork grease. Cup of mint tea.
SUNDAY
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"Breakfast: wheat cereal with molasses and milk. Coffee.
"Dinner: I fried the rest of the crayfish with a bit of
salt pork; fixed a salad of wild greens. Two slices of
bread, a pot of tea, and raspberries.
"Supper: I eat a late noon dinner on Sundays - around two
or two-thirty - and usually skip the evening meal. However,
I was afraid you might cry 'foul' on me, so I ate some
bread and milk in the evening and called it a week.
"P.S.: Never got around to spending the last 19¢, so I
think I'll splurge it on an ice cream soda next time I'm in
town. Folks who use the kerosene burner would probably
spend most of it on fuel. I use wood and charcoal which
costs me only sweat.
"What would I do in a big city? Well, there are woods,
fields, bunnies, and edible plants as well as fishing lakes
and streams within trolley and walking distances of most
cities. In the big cities, too, pigeons are a nuisance. But
they are fat and easily snared, and they cook up nicely if
given plenty of time on the simmer-cooker. I've lived in
New York, Los Angeles, Omaha, Denver and lots of cities in
between and I noticed most city park lily ponds are
swarming with crawdads. They are pretty well distributed
all over the country and, indeed, all over the world.
"You must keep in mind, also, that meat is not vital.
George Bernard Shaw recently celebrated his 94th birthday.
He has been a strict vegetarian for half a century and his
good health and work capacity -he has just completed a new
play - are testimony to his beliefs. Soybeans are the only
vegetable which approach the protein content of meat and
are therefore the best meat substitute. But soybeans can be
prepared in hundreds of satisfying ways.
"Soup bones, chicken feet, and government inspected horse
meat are also cheap additions to a low-cost diet available
to most city dwellers.
"If you think my week's menu was a bit monotonous, just
remember that in my garden now (July 26) I have ripe
tomatoes, sweet corn turnips, carrots, kohlrabi, kale,
cabbage, edible podded peas, lettuce, cucumbers, summer
squash, new potatoes, onions and green beans.
"What about winter? Well, I'd eat more meat; might even get
a deer. But there are also raccoons, possums, and red
squirrels in addition to rabbits. For greens, I grow
watercress in a Small aquarium and lettuce in a window boy
inside a sunny window. I also sprout soybeans. That's in
case you wouldn't let me use the stuff preserved from my
garden - which would include dried and canned vegetables
and fruits, as well as potatoes, rutabagas, squash, et
cetera in the root cellar.
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