Lucullus The Food of the Future

[1926] Hartley, Olga and [Hilda Leyel] (1880-1957). Lucullus The Food of the Future. By Olga Hartley and Mrs. C. F. Leyel [pseud.]. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. A volume in the To-day and To-morrow series. On the series, see Max Saunders, Imagined Futures: Writing, Science and Modernity on the To-Day and To-Morrow Series, 1923-31. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2019. 77 pp. O, PSt

Future history ending in a eutopia. Considerable satire presented through a speech by a scholar in the far future. First vegetarians win the day; then Neo-Vegetarians, who won’t eat plants; then scientists create chemical food. A backlash against science occurs when Glasgow is destroyed during an experiment and then all science is regulated and begins to develop things that are useful. General decentralization occurs, and people return to eating meat. Leyel was the founder of the Society of Herbalist, which became the Herb Society (https://herbsociety.org.uk), the founder of a chain of herbalist stores, and the author of books on herbalism and cooking. Hartley was Leyel’s assistant and also co-authored other works with her. and was also known as a journalist at suffragist. Female authors.