Food Guide for War Service at Home: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Food Guide for War Service at Home, credited to Katherine Blunt, Frances Swain, and Florence Powdermaker, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Food Guide for War Service at Home by Katherine Blunt, Frances Swain and Florence Powdermaker. Read by Maria Kasper. "The long war has brought hunger to Europe; some of her peoples stand constantly face to face with starvation. To meet all this great food need in Europe—and meeting it is an imperative military necessity—we must be very careful and economical in our food use here at home. We must eat less; we must waste nothing; we must equalize the distribution of what food we may retain for ourselves; we must prevent extortion and profiteering which make prices so high that the poor cannot buy the food they actually need; and we must try to produce more food. For all this there is needed a "food education" of all our people. For the purpose of diffusing this information this little book has been prepared under the direction of the Food Administration. By following the suggestions for food conservation herein contained every one can render his country an important war service." (Summary excerpted from the Preface by Herbert Hoover)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Food Guide for War Service at Home
• Author credits: Katherine Blunt, Frances Swain, and Florence Powdermaker
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 2:05:13

Catalogue topics

• WWI
• home front
• food production
• rationing
• World War I

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface; Chapter 1 - The Wheat Situation — 19:16
2. 02 - The War-Time Importance of Wheat and Other Cereals — 22:55
3. 03 - War Bread — 12:05
4. 04 - The Meat Situation — 19:19
5. 05 - Fats — 10:07
6. 06 - Sugar — 11:16
7. 07 - Milk For the Nation's Health — 12:27
8. 08 - Vegetables and Fruits; Conclusion — 17:52

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