GRAHAM CRACKERS

It might interest you to know that graham crackers were invented by the Reverend Sylvester Graham in the year 1829. The Presbyterian minister was searching for health foods that would suppress man's sexual desires. Of course, he thought these carnal urges were the root of all evil.


Reverend Graham made what he called 'graham bread' out of unsifted and coarsely ground wheat. It was the centerpiece of the 'graham diet' which he urged his followers to adopt.


Incidentally, one of his followers was James Caleb Jackson who later invented granola cereal. Graham and his group helped found the American Vegetarian Society.