New York Committee on Food Supply

This cookbook was prepared in collaboration with The Domestic Science Department of the Board of Education of the City of New York. It is not a cookbook that has just gotten a cosmetic makeover, which often was the case with wartime material. It was obviously written with the war and its domestic and European consequences in mind. It is therefore rife with references to World War I, and all of the chapters are totally relevant to wartime circumstances.

Indeed, the need to economize, to alter the accustomed diet, and to not waste food also stemmed from the needs of our European allies. Farmers were urged to produce more crops and even urban families were growing foods in their yards and in vacant lots with more than their own needs in mind. Meals were simplified, and waste was vastly reduced, with the help of cookbooks like this one.… (más)