Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please note that we evacuees have been suffering shortages since last May. We mothers have been frankly worried about the vitamin-deficient meals ever since we were first confined, and have had to supplement our diet with purchases from the outside, of meat, butter, eggs and fruit, which have never been adequate. It might interest you to know that our supper tonight consisted of a bowl of sweetened bean soup, which most Nisei do not like, two pieces of vinegared beets and two slices of pickled radish. Tea and rice completed the meal...
...Left for civilians, out of next year's production, will be about $500 worth of goods each-a fourth less than in 1941. But the nation will have to get along on a simpler diet, do without "the thousand and one things that are nonessentials or luxuries...
Stewards head each of the seven units, and as men trained in the art of cooking and dietetics, they are responsible for drawing up menus for each week. These menus are cleared through Westcott's office where they are checked for a balanced diet, and are then sent to the printer. On the basis of these menus, stewards compute the amount of food they will need for the week...
Piecing together the demands from the various separate units, the central office procures the food in one lot. In drawing up a menu, however, a steward must consider other factors in addition to the balance of the diet; he must now try to select foods which he knows will be available, and he must know the specialities of his chefs...
...loot got her investigated by police last February.) The diva decided to take the animal home, install it in temperature-controlled luxury. For a wild dog the molasses-colored mongrel had an even disposition, a splendid coat. Likely cause for these genteel qualities was the Hempel diet: good beef, carrots, melba toast, cod-liver oil, and sometimes mineral...