SUMMARY (Ridvan Askin, edited by Deborah Madsen):

Stow reports on her experiments with an uncooked or raw plant-based diet; that is, she consumes “no food which had been devitalized by fire, or which came from animals” (2). Her two meals per day consisted of “[g]rania for bread; honey for stimulation; celery, cabbage, sweet potatoes, onions, lettuce, parsnips, etc., for vegitables [sic]; all kinds of nuts, raisins, fruit, fresh and dried (soaked) for dessert; water, only, for drink,” in addition to Graham bread and boiled rice. She does add boiled eggs and “milk, butter and cream” (2) to her diet. 

She encourages her readers no longer to put “hot things into mouth or stomach,” claiming that “[c]old food dieters are never sick” so “[c]old food and cold water will toll the knell of whisky and drugs.”