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This week on Fresh Air we did a show about Depression-era food. Andy Coe and Jane Ziegelman explore this often-overlooked chapter of American culinary history in their new book, A Square Meal. In the interview they explain why relief meals were purposely bland:
Andy Coe: One of the things about the people who were overseeing food relief and the home economists, one of their beliefs was that the blandness wasn’t bad because “nobody was ever killed by monotony.” They were killed by not having enough nutrients, and if it didn’t taste good … They didn’t want people to be too excited by the budget foods, because they wanted to force people to get jobs and to earn enough money to buy spices and seasonings. … When they were handing out relief boxes, they deliberately didn’t add such things as mustard and vinegar with the relief boxes, because they didn’t want people to become too happy with receiving food relief.
Creamed, Canned And Frozen: How The Great Depression Revamped U.S. Diets
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This week on Fresh Air we did a show about Depression-era food. Andy Coe and Jane Ziegelman explore this often-overlooked chapter of American culinary history in their new book, A Square Meal. In the interview they explain why relief meals were purposely bland:
Andy Coe: One of the things about the people who were overseeing food relief and the home economists, one of their beliefs was that the blandness wasn’t bad because “nobody was ever killed by monotony.” They were killed by not having enough nutrients, and if it didn’t taste good … They didn’t want people to be too excited by the budget foods, because they wanted to force people to get jobs and to earn enough money to buy spices and seasonings. … When they were handing out relief boxes, they deliberately didn’t add such things as mustard and vinegar with the relief boxes, because they didn’t want people to become too happy with receiving food relief.
Creamed, Canned And Frozen: How The Great Depression Revamped U.S. Diets
Images via Mashable & the Library of Congress
from Tumblr http://ift.tt/2byj4kk
via IFTTT
