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Show AMERICA INACTION : r I - COOKING AND KIIOI'I'ING Kill TIIK A KM Y Uncle Karri's fighting men eat about five and a quarter pounds of food a day. And to make sure it's the best possible food obtainable, the quartermaster quar-termaster corps has gone to great lengths to buy it as near the points of production as possible, to see that it reaches the men in good condition, and to make certain that it is served to them well-cooked and In rneals that are nutritionally adequate to provide the energy he needs to fight this war. The quartermaster corps doesn't do the army's cooking, but it trains the army's cooks in more than 90 bakers' and cooks' schools through-, out the country and wages an unceasing un-ceasing war on food waste. Intensive cours.es are given in cooking, baking, bak-ing, and food handling, plus special courses for mess sergeants, mess officers, mess supervisors, and in cold weather cookery and use of dehydrated de-hydrated foods. This year alone about 100,000 men are completing these courses. Great savings in food are being effected through revision of coffee and tea brewing recipes, strict inspections, in-spections, and careful planning of menus to furnish soldiers the food they will eat. Further savings have been produced pro-duced by supplanting the peacetime practice of issuing rations on the basis of daily strength reports. Today To-day meals are prepared on the basis of the number of men who actually are present for meals. Soldiers are urged to eat all they want but no more. No effort is made to reduce the amount the individual in-dividual soldier eats, but every effort ef-fort is made to persuade him not to take more on his plate than he can eat In the case of foods of greatest relative scarcity, the quartermaster corps has made strenuous efforts to aid the civilian consumer. Butter is used with extreme economy; in fact, if the army used no butter at all the per capita increase in butter available to civilians would be only half an ounce a week. All the coffee cof-fee the army uses would amount to only a quarter of a pound for each civilian per ration period, and the army uses only about one-twelfth of the nation's sugar supply. The entire program produces nutritious meals for our fighting men with the least detriment to civilian food buying. Released by Western Newspaper Union. r----- |