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"In the pages of this appealing case study of food, conservation, and survival during 1917-18, food historian Rae Katherine Eighmey engages readers with wide research and recipes drawn from rarely viewed letters, diaries, recipe books, newspaper accounts, government pamphlets, and public service fliers. She brings alive the unknown but unparalleled efforts to win the war made by ordinary "Citizen Soldiers"--Farmers and city dwellers, lumberjacks and homemakers - who rolled up their sleeves to apply "can-do" ingenuity coupled with "must-do" drive. Their remarkable, largely volunteer efforts, carefully focused by university expertise and ubiquitous government propaganda, transformed everyday life and set the stage for the United States' postwar economic and political ascendance." --Book Jacket
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April 6, 2012
Finalist for the Hognader Award for the Outstanding Book on Minnesota History. One of the recommending reviewers said: "Eighmey's work takes us back to the war years revealing the fullest range of Minnesota's reaction to food conservation . . . she provided illustrations, photographs, and recipes that make it easier to envision the very different world described." A second wrote:
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