What did Ben eat?
Ben decided to become a vegetarian when he was 16 years old. He prepared his own meals, and mentions eating boiled potatoes, rice, hasty pudding, bread, raisins, and water. Quickly finishing his simple meals gave Ben more time for reading. Ben later gave up vegetarianism; during the voyage from Boston to Philadelphia he ate fish. Autobiography, Chapter 4: www.earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/chapt4/index.html www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Autumn04/food.
