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Feeding the People in Wartime Britain (Hardcover)
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Feeding the People in Wartime Britain (Hardcover)
Series: Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations
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While the history of food on the home front in wartime Britain has
mostly focused on rationing, this book reveals the importance and
scale of nation-wide communal dining schemes during this era.
Welcomed by some as a symbol of a progressive future in which
'wasteful' home dining would disappear, and derided by others for
threatening the social order, these sites of food and eating
attracted great political and cultural debate. Using extensive
primary source material, Feeding the People in Wartime Britain
examines the cuisine served in these communal restaurants and the
people who used them. It challenges the notion that communal eating
played a marginal role in wartime food policy and reveals the
impact they had in advancing nutritional understanding and new food
technologies. Comparing them to similar ventures in mainland Europe
and understanding the role of propaganda from the Ministry of Food
in their success, Evans unearths this neglected history of
emergency public feeding and relates it to contemporary debates
around food policy in times of crisis.
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