Tag: National Archives at Denver “What’s Cooking Wednesday”
continues with this post from our colleagues at the National
Archives at Denver. These Wednesday features celebrate our new
exhibit “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” which opens on June 10 in
Washington, DC, and looks at the role that the Federal
Government has taken in food production, safety, advertising,
and nutrition. It’s hard to image Rachel Ray or an Iron Chef
looking so solemn during a cooking demonstration, but these
ladies were showing an audience how to feed their family on the
war front—and still have food for an unknown family on the war
front. On the home front during World War I, a forced food
rationing program never took place, but a volunteer food
conservation system became commonplace. Civilians were advised
to give up food commodities that were greatly needed for the war
effort. Despite being the largest food producer in the world,
the United States of America was ill equipped to shoulder such
an overwhelming food and material distribut