page_title: Famine food
hierarchical_section_title: Famine food
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Лепёшки из лебеды и отрубей, жаренные на машинном масле. Музей блокады Ленинграда English: Flat cake (Goose-foot, bran, fried on machine oil). Used in Sieged Leningrad as food substitute.
context_page_description: A famine food or poverty food is any inexpensive or readily available food used to nourish people in times of hunger and starvation, whether caused by extreme poverty such as during economic depression; by natural disasters, such as drought; or by war or genocide.
  Foods associated with famine need not be nutritionally deficient, or unsavoury. People who eat famine food in large quantity over a long period of time may become averse to it over time. In times of relative affluence, these foods may become the targets of social stigma and rejection.
  The characterization of a foodstuff as "famine" or "poverty" food is primarily social. For example lobster and other crustaceans may be considered poverty food in some societies and luxury food in others depending on periods.
context_section_description: A famine food or poverty food is any inexpensive or readily available food used to nourish people in times of hunger and starvation, whether caused by extreme poverty such as during economic depression; by natural disasters, such as drought; or by war or genocide.
  Foods associated with famine need not be nutritionally deficient, or unsavoury. People who eat famine food in large quantity over a long period of time may become averse to it over time.  In times of relative affluence, these foods may become the targets of social stigma and rejection.
  The characterization of a foodstuff as "famine" or "poverty" food is primarily social. For example lobster and other crustaceans may be considered poverty food in some societies and luxury food in others depending on periods.
caption: Breads made of orache and bran, fried in machine oil, were used as food in besieged Leningrad
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