Cooking Under the Ground for British Soldiers
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Cooking Under the Ground for British Soldiers
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Cooking Under the Ground for British Soldiers
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Caption: British soldiers hauling up food from an underground kitchen
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THE life of a British
soldier in France is not
made up entirely of dodging
shells and bullets and going
“over the top.” He spends
some time in looking out for
the inner man. For he has
learned that a soldier does
not fight well on an empty
stomach and that properly
cooked food is essential to
efficiency.
Food can not be safely
prepared in positions exposed
to the fire of the Germans.
The cooks might be driven
away from the stove by the
concentrated fire of machine
guns at a critical period in the
broiling of the meat.
Therefore the underground kitchen
was built. It has many of the conven-
iences found in the home of the careful
housewife and some features which her
kitchen does not possess. For example,
the food from the underground kitchen
shown in the accompany-
ing illustration is brought
to the surface of the earth
by means of a windlass.
This kitchen is located in,
a bomb-proof subter-
ranean chamber and
although the Ger
mans raked the
surrounding sec-
tions with shells
and bullets, the
culinary arrange-
‘ments of the Brit-
ish remained un-
disturbed. After
the Germans had
retreated the
British re-
ceived the food
that had been
prepared. :
The picture at
the right gives a
good idea of the
construction of the
underground kitchen
with its dumbwaiter.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1918-07
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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49
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Filippo Valle
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 93, n. 1, 1918
