BETTER FOOD FOR OUR FIGHTING MEN presents a selection of approximately 100 images dating from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, sourced from a U.S. Army research and development center. At this industrial complex, which remains in operation today, military personnel and civilian contractors work to improve soldiers’ daily living conditions and nutrition.
Feeding the troops is a major logistical, health, and psychological challenge for the world’s leading military. Here, the enemy is bacteria, and the lifeblood of the war effort is supply—the “supply chain.” How does one produce, transport, cook, and serve food across all latitudes and climates, and in every possible scenario? These images document the experiments conducted by nutritionists and logisticians at this military “food science lab.” The visual collection is supplemented by a glossary of 24 entries, which explains in detail the various acronyms found in the image captions, touches on elements of the history of the American soldier’s rations in the 20th century, and describes the different technologies developed by the food industry in the production of this mass-produced food.
11 x 17 cm
Softcover
192 pages 92 photographs)
BETTER FOOD FOR OUR FIGHTING MEN presents a selection of approximately 100 images dating from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, sourced from a U.S. Army research and development center. At this industrial complex, which remains in operation today, military personnel and civilian contractors work to improve soldiers’ daily living conditions and nutrition.
Feeding the troops is a major logistical, health, and psychological challenge for the world’s leading military. Here, the enemy is bacteria, and the lifeblood of the war effort is supply—the “supply chain.” How does one produce, transport, cook, and serve food across all latitudes and climates, and in every possible scenario? These images document the experiments conducted by nutritionists and logisticians at this military “food science lab.” The visual collection is supplemented by a glossary of 24 entries, which explains in detail the various acronyms found in the image captions, touches on elements of the history of the American soldier’s rations in the 20th century, and describes the different technologies developed by the food industry in the production of this mass-produced food.
11 x 17 cm
Softcover
192 pages 92 photographs)
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