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Food will win the war : the politics, culture, and science of food on Canada's home front / Ian Mosby.
LIBRA HD9014.C22 M73 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mosby, Ian, 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Food supply--Canada.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Canada.
- Food supply--Canada--History--20th century.
- Food supply.
- Food security--Canada--History--20th century.
- Food security.
- Nutrition policy--Canada--History--20th century.
- Nutrition policy.
- Food habits--Canada--History--20th century.
- Food habits.
- War and society--Canada--History--20th century.
- War and society.
- Food--Canada--Historiography.
- Food.
- Historiography.
- History.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 268 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- During the Second World War, as Canada struggled to provide its allies with food, public health officials warned that malnutrition could derail the war effort. Posters admonished Canadians to "Eat Right" because "Canada Needs You Strong" while cookbooks helped housewives become "housoldiers" through food rationing, menu substitutions, and household production. Ian Mosby explores the symbolic and material transformations that food and eating underwent as the Canadian state took unprecedented steps into the kitchens of the nation, changing the way women cooked, what their families ate, and how people thought about food. Canadians, in turn, rallied around food and nutrition to articulate new visions of citizenship for a new peacetime social order. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 "Eat Right, Fee! Right - Canada Needs You Strong": Food Rules and the Transformation of Canada's Wartime Nutritional State 21
- 2 The Kitchen and the State: Food Rationing, Price Control, and the Gender Politics of Consumption 61
- 3 Mobilizing Canada's "Housoldiers" and "Kitchen Commandos" for War: Food, Volunteers, and the Making of Canada's Home Front 97
- 4 Tealess Teas, Meatless Days, and Recipes for Victory: Transforming Food Culture and Culinary Practice in Wartime 133
- 5 The Politics of Malnutrition: Nutrition Experts and the Making of Canada's Postwar Welfare State 162.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-254) and index.
- Other Format:
- Mosby, Ian, 1980-, author. Food will win the war.
- ISBN:
- 9780774827614
- 0774827610
- OCLC:
- 862781683
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