1910-1920

This collection includes works related to vegetarianism and meatless cooking published in the United States between 1910 and 1920.

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Mucusless-Diet Healing System

Arnold Ehret

A complete course for those who desire to learn how to control their health. A scientific method of eating your way to health. Digitized by the Goys Life. PDF available here.
The Health Question Box

John Harvey Kellogg

A Thousand and one health questions answered. From the medical director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Digitized by Open Knowledge Commons from Columbia University Libraries. Full text available at the Internet Archive.
Fruit Recipes

Riley M. Fletcher Berry

A manual of the food values of fruits and nine hundred different ways of using them. Digitized by the Boston Public Library from their archives. Full text available at the Internet Archive.
The Itinerary of a Breakfast

John Harvey Kellogg

A popular account of travels of a breakfast through the food tube and of the ten gates and several stations through which it passes, also of the obstacles which it sometimes meets. Digitized by Google. Full text available at the Internet Archive.
Modern Meatless Cook Book

House of Rest

Five hundred recipes for preparing foods with special reference to cooking without meat. Digitized by MSN from the University of California Libraries. Full text available at the Internet Archive.
Wheatless and Meatless Menus and Recipes

Alice Bradley

Gluten free and vegetarian recipes designed to promote health. Originally downloaded from and digitized courtesy of Internet Archive.
War Times Recipes

Mary Elizabeth

Containing many simple but excellent recipes, for wheatless cakes and bread, meatless dishes, sugarless candies, delicious war time desserts, and many other delectable "economy" dishes. Digitized by MSN from Cornell University Library. Full text available at the Internet Archive.
Wheatless and Meatless Days

Pauline Dunwell Partridge and Hester Martha Conklin

A book encouraging careful use of fats, milk, butter, and wheat. Many substitutions for meat are provided as well. Digitized by Google from the New York Public Library. Full text available at Hathitrust.
Food and Cookery

H S. Anderson

Simple, wholesome, inexpensive recipes with descriptions on their usefulness to the body. Full text found at Hathitrust. Digitized by Google from the original at the NY Public Library.
One Hundred and One Practical Non-Flesh Recipes

Margaret Blatch

Practical vegetarian recipes specifically organized for for high nutritional value and digestibility. Downloaded courtesy of Internet Archive. Digitized from the Boston Public Library.
Meatless and Wheatless Menus

Eugene Christian

A book discussing the harms of meat and advocating for the use of corn and rye over wheat from a food scientist. Digitized by Google from Harvard University. Full text available the Internet Archive.
How to Cut Food Costs

Lenna Frances Cooper

From the Director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium School of Home Economics, formerly Head Dietician of the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Digitized by Google from the New York Public Library. Full text available from Hathitrust.
The New Method in Diabetes

J. H. Kellogg

Book on the use of a plant-based diet in the treatment of diabetes. Includes sections on modern methods of examining and treating diabetes, as well as suggested recipes and menus to prepare for diabetics. Digitized with permission at the Library of Congress.
The Health Question Box

John Harvey Kellogg

A thousand and one health questions answered. Digitized by Open Knowledge Commons from Columbia University. Full text available at the Internet Archive.
Vegetarian Diet and Dishes

Benjamin Smith Lyman

A book encouraging people to experiment with breaking away from a meat diet. Digitized by Google from Harvard University. Full text available at Google Books.
War Time Cookery

Nellie C. Roberts

A collection of recipes that will not only reduce the high cost of living but are especially adapted to wheatless and meatless days. Digitized by the Sloan Foundation from the Library of Congress. Full text available at the Internet Archive.
Drying Fruits and Vegetables in the Home

Andrew F. Smith

Contains these instructions as well as recipes for cooking. Digitized by Google from the University of Illinois. Full text available at Google Books.
Meat Substitutes

Frederick Mead Briggs

A book attempting to provide cheap and substantial meals for families. This is not intended as a complete cook book. Digitized by the Internet Archive from the Library of Congress. Full text available at Hathitrust.
The New Cookery 3rd Edition

Lenna Frances Cooper

A book from the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium School of Home Economics, head dietitian of the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Digitized by Google from the New York Public Library. Full text available at Hathitrust.
The Simple Life in a Nutshell

J. H. Kellogg

Book promoting vegetarianism as part of a healthy lifestyle. Not a cookbook, but does contain suggestions on which foods to eat and which foods to avoid. Also includes suggestions for general health such as exercise and rest.
Salads, sandwiches and chafing dish recipes

Marion Harris Neil

Chafing dish cookery, Salads, Sandwiches, Chafing dish cooking by Marion Harris Neil was digitized by Google Books from the University of Wisconsin Library. Marion Neil was the cookery editor for The Ladies' Home Journal and author of multiple books.

This book includes both vegetarian and non-vegetarian recipes.
The Vegetarian, Volume I

Harry Leslie Stroupe

Book promoting the vegetarian lifestyle. Includes recipes and menus for plant-based meals.
Food and cookery; handbook for teachers and pupils for use in cooking classes and demonstrations

Hans Steele Anderson

Cookbook published by the College Press in Loma Linda. Includes a wide-variety of vegetarian recipes. Downloaded courtesy of Hathitrust. Originally digitized by the Library of Congress.
The Nature Cook Book

Anna Lindlahr and Henry Lindlahr

A B C of natural dietetics. A cookbook providing opportunities for people to test the vegetarian diet for themselves with scientific basis. Digitized by the Sloan Foundation from the Library of Congress. Full text available at the Internet Archive.
Vegetarian Supplement to Scientific Feeding

Dora C. C. Roper

A scientific view of diet and the the effects of different food on the body. Digitized by the Sloan Foundation from the Library of Congress. Available at the Internet Archive.