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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 Guud- U'.IIH"'. W.iii no elirtric or gas appliances. nr,. without American markets and tl'H M stores, thcie uniformed cul-Ir-sry rxprrti have to feed the big-i;i big-i;i l-caliitg. hardcsl-to-plcasc farm-li- f all. With io rtcctric povtrr plants or j 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 thc 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 thc unit Is generally on some special detail which makes It late for meals Among the canned rations hash, stew and beans predominate. It 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 thc marines, ma-rines, has managed to enhance the hash ond stew by disguising it In thc folds of some of his excellent pastry and calling it meat and Vecetable pie. And another can at least make soup from thc bians |