Show I Real Cooking Problems Abound on Guadalcanal Housewives Housew who think it a burden to plan and prepare meals for the av average American family might grow old in a week facing the problem problem lem of marine corps cooks on Guad Guad- il With Wah no electric or gas gOlS appliances and without American markets and chain stores these uniformed culinary cul cul- inar inary nary experts have to feed the big big- eating gent ce eating t-eating bard please to est please famili families families li lies s of all With no electric power plants or r 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 possibility possibility of variety in the fare Care Troops served by the galley arc are continually on the move Each troop movement movement movement move move- ment means a change in galley site A part of the unit is generally on some special detail which makes it late for Cor meals 0 I Among the canned rations hash stew and beans heans predominate te It t takes kes genius to make hash anything but hash stew anything but stew and beans anything One cook wh why baked pies before he ever c. thought of I joining th the p maI marines ma ma- rines has bas mans manned 5 red ed to enhance the hash an and stew by disguising it in the folds of some of his excellent pastry and calling it meat an and v vegetable pie And another can at least ma make soup from the thc b bans ans |