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And just as the coronavirus pandemic has made scoring your ideal ingredients trickier, World War I had a number of parallels.
As the exhibit explains, on May 5, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Herbert Hoover as the head of the U.S. Food Administration. “Hoover called on Americans to voluntarily help the war effort and save food without imposing rations or regulations. He stated, ‘The whole foundation of democracy lies in the individual initiative of its people and their willingness to serve the interests of the nation with complete self-effacement in the time of emergency,’” the museum writes.
“While the COVID-19 and World War I/1918 flu pandemic are fundamentally different situations, they have both resulted in shortages of essential supplies, including food. The underlying message applicable to both situations is that rationing can absolutely make a difference—even on a small scale,” Lora Vogt, the museum’s curator of education, told me via email.
“To be certain, cooking terminology and some commonly used food items have changed in the past 100 years, so the modern-era recipes take those items into account,” Vogt told me. “For example, the updated recipe for Chocolate Fudge Frosting—which is delicious—is quite similar to the World War I-era recipe. The only changes are substituting butter for ‘fat’ and adjusting the cooking temperature to Fahrenheit as the cookbook temperatures were in Celsius.
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