Recipes For Victory

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Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2018

ISBN-13: 9781770503472

<i>Recipes for Victory</i> combines history and cooking as it presents domestic and military recipes (and their modern-day equivalents) used during the Great War &mdash; in the trenches, behind the lines, and on the home front. <p>Profusely illustrated with historical drawings and photographs, the text explores the role of the army cook, what soldiers ate in and behind the trenches, the war time efforts on the home front, the role of alcohol, the importance of food packages from home, and the problems of surplus. The text also explores the Children's Potato War Plot Fund, the Vacant Land Cultivation act, and the importance of home gardens. Three elucidating essays by Wayne Reeves, Chief Curator, Museum and Heritage Services, City of Toronto; Kevin Hebib, Program Development Officer, Fort York National Historic Site, and David Webb, Ontario Region Military Curator (ret), Parks Canada, provide fascinating details about the role of food in war.Recipes for Victory presents domestic and military recipes used during the Great War.