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Health & diet learning journey

Follow the Learning Journey Steps and sample the food at Lancashire's Cottonopolis Restaurant. Choose from our extensive range of original menus!

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Health & Diet Learning Journey Step 5: Vegetarian
Follow in the footsteps of pioneering Victorian vegetarians Rev. William Cowherd and Joseph Brotherton who established the oldest Vegetarian Society in the world in Manchester in 1847 - enjoy our vegetarian menu which brings to you flesh free eating at its best!

Today's Special.
Mr Ching of Stockwell's "Haricots at dinner with vegetables, potatoes and cabbage
Wholemeal bread and butter for tea, breakfast and supper, sometimes with some cheese"

Choose from Mrs Beeton's Vegetarian Dinner Menus

Lentil Soup
Cucumber and Eggs
Macaroni Cream
Tomato Salad
Cold Cabinet Pudding or Fruit Salad
Welsh Rarebit

Vegetable Soup
Cheese Omelette
Baked Windsor Beans (broad beans)
Iced Asparagus
Apple Amber or Fruit in Jelly
Grilled Mushrooms

(source: Mrs Beeton's Family Cookery 1909)

Find out more about the Vegetarian Society at http://www.vegsoc.org

Famous vegetarians include: Albert Einstein (scientist), Charles Darwin (naturalist), Brigitte Bardot (actress), Paul McCartney (singer).
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