Food Guide for War Service at Home, by Katharine Blunt, Frances L. Swain, and Florence Powdermaker, et al

About this eBook

Author

Swain, Frances Lucy

Title

Food Guide for War Service at Home Prepared under the direction of the United States Food Administration in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, with a preface by Herbert Hoover

Credits

E-text prepared by Audrey Longhurst, William Flis, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production

Subject

World War, 1914-1918 -- Food supply -- United States

Category

Text

eBook-No.

14055

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14055

Release Date

November 15, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FOOD GUIDE — FOR
2. 2.WAR SERVICE AT HOME — PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF — THE UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION — IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION — WITH A PREFACE BY HERBERT HOOVER — UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATOR — 1918 — ANNOUNCEMENT — PREFACE — CONTENTS
3. 3.THE WHEAT SITUATION — THE WORLD'S SUPPLY OF WHEAT — WHEAT IN THE UNITED STATES — MEETING THE WHEAT SHORTAGE
4. 4.THE WAR-TIME IMPORTANCE OF WHEAT AND OTHER CEREALS — THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF FOOD — THE SOCIAL IMPORTANCE OF CEREALS, ESPECIALLY WHEAT — WHEAT FLOUR IN WAR-TIME — THE 50-50 RULE. ANOTHER WAY TO CUT THE CONSUMPTION OF WHEAT — SUBSTITUTES FOR WHEAT FLOUR
5. 5.WAR BREAD — THE BAKERS' REGULATIONS. VICTORY BREAD — THE INDIVIDUAL'S ANSWER TO THE BREAD CRY — FLOUR AND BREAD IN THE ALLIED COUNTRIES — WHY WE IN THE UNITED STATES DO NOT HAVE BREAD CARDS
6. 6.THE MEAT SITUATION — WHERE EUROPE'S MEAT HAS BEEN PRODUCED — THE WAR AND THE EUROPEAN MEAT-SUPPLY — THE MEAT RATIONS OF EUROPE — THE PART OF THE UNITED STATES — MEAT CONSERVATION — MEAT AND OTHER PROTEIN FOODS — THE MEAT SUBSTITUTES
7. 7.FATS — THE SITUATION ABROAD — THE SITUATION IN THE UNITED STATES
8. 8.SUGAR — WHY IS THERE A SUGAR SHORTAGE? — THE EFFECT OF THE SHORTAGE — IN PLACE OF SUGAR — THE PRICE OF SUGAR — TO CUT DOWN ON SUGAR
9. 9.MILK—FOR THE NATION'S HEALTH — THE VALUABLE CONSTITUENTS OF MILK — OUR MILK PROBLEM — OUR MILK ABROAD
10. 10.VEGETABLES AND FRUITS — IN THE WAR DIET — CANNING AND DRYING VEGETABLES AND FRUITS
11. 11.CONCLUSION
12. 12.A FEW REFERENCES
13. 13.INDEX

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