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The Home Front 1914–1918: How Britain Survived the Great War (2006). Hammond, R.J. Food and agriculture in Britain, 1939–45: Aspects of wartime control (Food, agriculture, and World War II) (Stanford U.P. 1954); summary of his three volume official history entitled Food (1951–53) Home Front Handbook.
British food imports fell from 22 million tons annually before the war to 12 million tons at the end of the war, thanks to greater domestic production of food, concentration and dehydration of some foods such as meat, milk, and eggs, and rationing, especially of imported and luxury items. Adequate nutrition was maintained by rationing.
A British Restaurant in Woolmore Street, Poplar, London, in 1942. British Restaurants were communal kitchens created in 1940 during the Second World War to help people who had been bombed out of their homes, had run out of ration coupons or otherwise needed help. [1] [2] In 1943, 2,160 British Restaurants served 600,000 very inexpensive meals a ...
Rationing had become the norm in the U.K., and the royal family was not exempt. Determined to get her dream dress, Elizabeth, who was just a princess at the time, saved up clothing coupons in ...
Indeed, food rationing was a major success story in Britain's war. [ 4 ] In the dark days of late June 1940, with a German invasion threatened, Woolton reassured the public that emergency food stocks were in place that would last "for weeks and weeks" even if the shipping could not get through.
Overseas servicemen needed a piece of home in WW2 - Rainbow Corner and the Beaver Club filled the gap. ... so unfamiliar to Britons wearied by rationing and war. ... programmes such as American ...
However, shortages remained in the United Kingdom, and rationing remained in place for at least some food items until 1954. Land at the centre of the Sutton Garden Suburb in Sutton, London was first put to use as a victory garden during World War II; before then it had been used as a recreation ground with tennis courts. The land continued to ...
Woolton pie is a pastry dish of vegetables, widely served in Britain in the Second World War when rationing and shortages made other dishes hard to prepare. The recipe was created by François Latry, [1] Maître Chef des Cuisines at the Savoy Hotel in London, [2] [3] and appeared on the Savoy menu as "Le Lord Woolton Pie".