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A recurring theme in wartime community cookbooks is the kitchen as home front. An ad for Eaton’s specifically celebrates “Soldiers of the Kitchen Front,” the women whose knowledge of nutrition and food preparation would help them nourish their…

Adelle Davis was a notable American nutritionist and author of seven books on diet and nutrition. Her views, advocating unprocessed food and vitamin supplementation, were often controversial (Carstairs; McBean and Speckmann 1076). This textbook was…

While food was always a key driver of Western Canada’s economy, the war meant that Prairie production had global consequences. This brochure, published by the North-West Line Elevators Association, encourages farmers to tailor their production to…