The Imperial War Museum
The Ministry of Food
12 February 2010 - 3 January 2011
(Sponsored by Company of Cooks)
Seventy years ago the wartime government announced the introduction of food rationing - a control that was to remain in force for the next fourteen years.
To mark this event Imperial War Museum London has opened The Ministry of Food, a major new exhibition to show how the British public adapted to a world of food shortages by ‘Lending a Hand on the Land’, ‘Digging for Victory’, taking up the ‘War on Waste’, and being both frugal and inventive on the ‘Kitchen Front’.
Visitors will discover that growing your own food, eating seasonal fruit and vegetables, reducing imports, recycling and healthy nutrition were just as topical in 1940 as they are today.
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