Description
All through the Second World War, as Canada struggled to offer its allies with food, public health officials warned that malnutrition may derail the war effort. Posters admonished Canadians to “Eat Right” because “Canada Needs You Strong” even as cookbooks helped housewives turn into “housoldiers” through food rationing, menu substitutions, and household production. Ian Mosby explores the symbolic and subject material transformations that food and eating underwent because the Canadian state took unprecedented steps into the kitchens of the nation, changing the best way women cooked, what their families ate, and how other people considered food. Canadians, in turn, rallied around food and nutrition to articulate new visions of citizenship for a new peacetime social order.