Food in Wartime Britain: Testimonies from the Kitchen Front (1939-1945)

ISBN-13: 9781138368408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 156 str.

Natacha Chevalier

Opis

Based on deep analysis of Mass Observation wartime diaries, Food in Wartime Britain explores the food experience of the British middle-classes from their own words throughout the course of the Second World War.

Spis treści

Introduction, sources and methodology;  Part I: The British and their food;  1. British eating habits: a short history;  2. Food and social classes;  3. Food management in wartime;  Part II: Testimonies from the Kitchen Front;  4. The diarists and their diaries;  5. The Kitchen Front;  Epilogue and conclusion

O autorze

Natacha Chevalier is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.