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Title: Food Guide for War Service at Home

Author: Katharine Blunt, Frances L. Swain, and Florence Powdermaker

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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
United States Food Administrator

1918

[Illustration: Reproduced by courtesy of National Geographic Society]

ANNOUNCEMENT

In the spring of 1918 the Collegiate Section of the United States Food
Administration was called upon to prepare a simple statement of the
food situation as affected by the war, suitable for elementary and
high school teachers, high-school pupils, and the general public. The
demand arose because of the wide adoption of the three courses on
this subject then being sent out weekly to universities, colleges, and
normal schools throughout the country.

This little volume is the response to that request. It was written by
Katharine Blunt, of the University of Chicago, Frances L. Swain, of
the Chicago Normal School, and Florence Powdermaker, of the United
States Department of Agriculture.

The records of the Food Administration have been open to the writers
and they have had the advice and criticism of its officials and
specialists. No effort has been spared to secure accuracy of statement
in the text.

OLIN TEMPLIN,
Director