The trench cookbook 1917
Subtitle: Western Front recipes from bully beef stew to trench tea
By: edited by Hannah Holman
Contributors: Great Britain. War Office; British Red Cross Society; United States. War Department
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781445655499
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Operational rations (Military supplies); Trench warfare; Social aspects; Cooking for military personnel; History
Other titles: Manual for army cooks
Description: Why did trench tea taste of vegetables? What was the single largest componant of a Tommy's diet? What were 'iron rations'? Why was 'Maconochie' the most despised food at the front? The old adage that 'an army marches on its stomach' was never more true than on the Western Front during the First World War. Literally millions of hungry soldiers had to be fed and watered in trenches and behind the lines in France and Belgium and beyond. An army of cooks working in field kitchens relied on their training and official manuals published by the War Office, this book reproduces pages direct from these rare artefacts with an authoritative introduction.