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Canadian Association For Food Studies Nov 21

How did Canadian housewives become “housesoldiers”? And can food actually win wars? Read on!

We suggest you start with Jennifer Brady’s review of Ian Mosby’s first book, Food Will Win The War: The Politics, Culture and Science of Food (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.46). Then, pair it with The Dorothy Perkins Canadian Garden Book.

https://www.ubcpress.ca/food-will-win-the-war
https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-109291-36/

More questions ensue: How does one stake up one’s tomatoes? What are the benefits of a cold frame? And is Dorothy Perkins the author’s real name?

Perkins teaches us how to be productionists in our own back garden on the heels of the first world war, while Mosby explores the whys and wherefores of household production in the second world war.

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