It takes the average reader 2 hours and 20 minutes to read What to Eat, and How to Cook It by Joseph Cowan
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Cowan’s earlier works dealt with sexual hygiene and the evils of tobacco, but in What to Eat, and How to Cook It he turned to diet. Food and culinary practice had become more complex in American middle-class society by 1870, and Cowan’s cookbook blasted his countrymen for eating “conglomerate mixtures,” ingredients “mixed in all shapes, in all measures, and under all conditions.” He believed that overly manipulated, processed foods led to a “clogged brain” and a “sickly and unenjoyable life.” His conclusion was that, “To live a sweet healthy life implies the use of simple, nutritious food,...
What to Eat, and How to Cook It by Joseph Cowan is 140 pages long, and a total of 35,000 words.
This makes it 47% the length of the average book. It also has 43% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 11 minutes to read What to Eat, and How to Cook It aloud.
What to Eat, and How to Cook It is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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