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Feeding the people in wartime Britain / Bryce Evans.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evans, Bryce, author.
- Series:
- Food in modern history: traditions and innovations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emergency mass feeding--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Emergency mass feeding.
- World War, 1939-1945--Food supply--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1914-1918--Food supply--Great Britain.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Distribution:
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022
- Place of Publication:
- London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- Summary:
- "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"
- Contents:
- British food and feeding up to the First World War
- The birth of emergency public feeding in the First World War
- The development of emergency public feeding in the First World War
- British food and feeding in the interwar period
- The birth of emergency public feeding in the Second World War
- The development of emergency public feeding in the Second World War
- Conclusion: Emergency feeding in historical perspective.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781350281004
- 135028100X
- 1-350-25972-1
- OCLC:
- 1295021847
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