Brain Food: Steam Cooked Wheat & Barley

New York, New York: The Cereals Manufacturing Co, 1880. Very good. Letter folds. Minor toning, chipping to edges.. Printed advertising bifolium for Steam Cooked Wheat & Barley, marketing it as "brain food" and an important component of health and wellness. Includes a scientific discussion of the food, calling it and its phosphorus content "the physical source of life itself" and attributes the greatness of "The Greek athlete and the Roman gladiator" to diets rich in grain and cereals. Includes recipes for Boiled Hasty Pudding, Muffins, and Griddle Cakes on the second leaf verso.

Bifolium (8.25" by 5.75"), printed in blue, with illustration of a cereal manufacturing plant on first leaf recto.