Food and Cooking in Wartime

The Food Administration sponsored a program to educate the people about nutrition and food preservation to help persuade them that eating less would not be harmful. Signs and posters proclaimed, "Food Will Win the War" and pitched what became known as the "Doctrine of the Clean Plate." The National War Garden Commission encouraged Americans to "put the slacker land to use" by growing war gardens and to preserve by canning and drying all the food they could not use while fresh. This collection of historical materials captures these efforts related to the World War I era food situation.

http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/HumanEcol/WWIHomeCook