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Show Real Cooking Problems Abound on Guadalcanal Housewives who think it a burden to plan and prepare meals for the average American family might grow old in a week facing the problem prob-lem of marine corps cooks on Guadalcanal. Guad-alcanal. With no electric or gas appliances, and without American markets and chain stores, these uniformed culinary cul-inary experts have to feed the biggest-eating, bardest-to-please families fami-lies of all. With no electric power plants or natural gas supply, all meals have to be prepared on wood or kerosene stoves. Because the tropical heat makes storage of fresh foods difficult canned foods must be used almost exclusively. This reduces the possibility possi-bility of variety in the fare. Troops served by the galley are continually on the move. Each troop movement move-ment means a change in galley site. A part of the unit is generally on some special detail which makes it late for meals Among the canned rations hash stew and beans predominate li takes genius to make hash anything but hash, stew anything but stew and beans anything. One cook who baked pies before he ever thought of joining the marines, ma-rines, has manned to enhance the hash and stew by disguising it in the folds of some of his excellent pastrv and calling it meat and vegetable pie. And another ean at least make soup from the b.ans |