The Reverend Sylvester Graham was an American dietary reformer, best known for his emphasis on vegetarianism, the temperance movement, and his invention of graham bread, graham flour and the graham cracker. He died this day in 1851.
Graham was a Presbyterian minister before becoming a leading figure in the temperance movement, advocating lifestyle choices that included eating fresh fruits and vegetables and decreasing sex drive.
Speaking of sex, in 1721 Rudolph Jacob Camerarius died. He was a German botanist, that showed the existence of sexes in plants, and identified the stamen and pistil as the male and female organs. He described his findings in the form of a letter that he stamped and mailed to a colleague, De sexu plantarum (1694; “On the sex of plants”), and in Opuscula botanica (1697; “Botanical Works”).
Speaking of stamps, on this day in 1959 Representative Lenore Sullivan of Missouri successfully championed a legislative amendment to launch a pilot food-stamp program to be run by the Agriculture Department.
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