{"product_id":"feeding-the-people-in-wartime-britain-9781350259713","title":"Feeding the People in Wartime Britain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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, \u003ci\u003eFeeding the People in Wartime Britain\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e   List of Illustrations Acknowledgements  \u003cb\u003eIntroduction: Emergency public feeding in 20th and 21st century Britain\u003c\/b\u003e §  The National Kitchen §  The British Restaurant §  Public Feeding §  Eating Out §  Many Mouths §  Emergency Measures  \u003cb\u003e1.     \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e British Food and Feeding up to the First World War\u003c\/b\u003e §  Introduction §  Faith and Consumption §  Female Voluntarism, Class and Gender §  Scientific Advance, Class, and Nutritional Reform §  Humanitarianism, Socialism and the New Liberalism §  Conclusion   \u003cb\u003e2.     \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e The Birth of Emergency Public Feeding in the First World War\u003c\/b\u003e   Introduction  From      soup kitchens to communal kitchens  The      radical threat of communal dining  Avoiding      the taint of charity and establishing the female role: the organisation of      the new national kitchens  Conclusion    \u003cb\u003e3.     \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e The development of Emergency Public Feeding in the First World War\u003c\/b\u003e   Introduction  Food      Control Committees and the forward march of public feeding  The      ‘Peripatetic Piewoman’: a      case study in female leadership in public feeding  Food      Reformers: Nutritional Instruction      and Egalitarian Eating  ‘Civilizational      Value’? Arnold Bennett versus GK Chesterton  Resistance grows  Conclusion   \u003cb\u003e4.     \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e British Food and Feeding in the Interwar period\u003c\/b\u003e ·       Introduction ·       Public Feeding limps on as British society changes ·       Nutrition, the Body and National Health ·       Communal Feeding as Communism and the female call for ‘permanent relief’ ·       International Comparisons ·       Conclusion   5.      \u003cb\u003eThe Birth of Emergency Public Feeding in the Second World War\u003c\/b\u003e   Introduction  The      British Restaurant is born  Nutritional      Reform §  British Restaurants: how they looked and how they worked   Left\/Right      political divisions  Conclusion    6.     \u003cb\u003e The Development of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eEmergency \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublic Feeding in the Second World War\u003c\/b\u003e   Introduction  Nutritional      reformers versus the sausage roll  Emergency      Feeding Schemes – the Queen’s Messenger Convoys  A      Plethora of Schemes  Eating      Out with Tommy Trinder (and Barbara Cartland)  Utility      – ‘marginal’ to the war effort, or more      significant?  Conclusion    \u003cb\u003eConclusion: Emergency feeding in historical perspective\u003c\/b\u003e Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019646206295,"sku":"9781350259713","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350259713.jpg?v=1750780894","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/feeding-the-people-in-wartime-britain-9781350259713","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}