Food Will Win the War : The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada's Home Front

Mosby, Ian

University of British Columbia Press（2014/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780774827614
• DDC分類 940.530971

Full Description

During WWII, as Canada struggled to provide its allies with food, nutritionists warned that malnutrition could derail the war effort. Posters admonished women and children to "Eat Right, Feel Right" because "Canada Needs You Strong" while cookbooks helped housewives become "housoldiers" through food rationing, menu substitutions, and household production.

Food Will Win the War explores the symbolic and material transformations that food and eating underwent during the war and the profound social, political, and cultural changes that took place in the 1940s. Through official food guides and policies, the state took unprecedented steps into the kitchens of the nation, transforming 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 their postwar future.

Contents

Introduction

1 "Eat Right, Feel Right - Canada Needs You Strong": Food Rules and the Transformation of Canada's Wartime Nutritional State

2 The Kitchen and the State: Food Rationing, Price Control, and the Gender Politics of Consumption

3 Mobilizing Canada's "Housoldiers" and "Kitchen Commandos" for War: Food, Volunteers, and the Making of Canada's Home Front

4 Tealess Teas, Meatless Days, and Recipes for Victory: Transforming Food Culture and Culinary Practice in Wartime

5 The Politics of Malnutrition: Nutrition Experts and the Making of Canada's Postwar Welfare State

Conclusion

Notes

Index