World War I

Food Guide for War Service at Home Prepared under the direction of the United States Food Administration in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, with a preface by Herbert Hoover

Wheat is as much a war necessity as ammunition--wheat is a war weapon. To produce it and distribute it where it is needed and in sufficient quantities is the most serious food problem of the Allied world. The continent of Europe, with her devastated fields, can raise but a sma...

Chapters

14. CHAPTER VIII

Vegetables and fruits represent a different and happier phase of the food situation than our short supplies of wheat and meat. The vegetables especially are a great potential re...

8. CHAPTER II

When the United States was called on to supply the Allies with much of its wheat and flour, we fortunately found at hand a plentiful supply of a great variety of other cereals....

10. CHAPTER IV

Meat shortage is not a war problem only. We had begun to talk of it long before the war, and we shall find it with us after peace is declared. Great production of beef can take...

7. CHAPTER I

Wheat is as much a war necessity as ammunition--wheat is a war weapon. To produce it and distribute it where it is needed and in sufficient quantities is the most serious food p...

13. CHAPTER VII

In war-time there is constant danger of letting down the health standard. Food is high in price, demands on incomes are many and insistent, worst of all, life is being expended...

9. CHAPTER III

Bread is the staff of life for all nations. But "bread" does not necessarily mean the wheat loaf. At one time and place it has been barley cake, at another oaten cake, and at an...

12. CHAPTER VI

OF ALL THE FOODS WHICH IT IS NECESSARY TO CONSERVE, SUGAR IS THE EASIEST TO DO WITHOUT. If the war and what it means has become part of a person's consciousness, he wishes only...

11. CHAPTER V

To a person who has been in Europe since the war began the question of the importance of fats is no longer debatable. Having practically gone without them, he knows they are imp...

2. CHAPTER II. THE WAR-TIME IMPORTANCE OF WHEAT AND OTHER CEREALS

3. CHAPTER III. WAR BREAD

4. CHAPTER IV. THE MEAT SITUATION

5. CHAPTER VI. SUGAR

6. CHAPTER VIII. VEGETABLES AND FRUITS

1. CHAPTER I. THE WHEAT SITUATION