BETTER FOOD FOR OUR FIGHTING MEN - Matthieu Nicol
BETTER FOOD FOR OUR FIGHTING MEN presents a selection of some 100 images dating from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, taken from a U.S. Army research and development center. In this industrial complex, still in operation today, military personnel and civilian contractors work to improve the comfort of soldiers' daily lives and diets.
Feeding the troops is a major logistical, health and psychological challenge for the world's leading army. Here, the enemy is bacteria, and the nerve of war is the supply chain. How to produce, transport, cook and serve food, at all latitudes and in all climates, and in all configurations? These images document the experiments carried out by the nutritionists and logisticians at the army's "food science lab". The visual set is completed by a glossary of 24 entries, describing by menu various acronyms found in the image captions, evoking elements of the history of the American soldier's ration in the 20th century, and the different technologies developed by the agri-food industry in the manufacture of this communal food.
11 x 17 cm
Soft cover
192 pages (92 photographs)
BETTER FOOD FOR OUR FIGHTING MEN presents a selection of some 100 images dating from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, taken from a U.S. Army research and development center. In this industrial complex, still in operation today, military personnel and civilian contractors work to improve the comfort of soldiers' daily lives and diets.
Feeding the troops is a major logistical, health and psychological challenge for the world's leading army. Here, the enemy is bacteria, and the nerve of war is the supply chain. How to produce, transport, cook and serve food, at all latitudes and in all climates, and in all configurations? These images document the experiments carried out by the nutritionists and logisticians at the army's "food science lab". The visual set is completed by a glossary of 24 entries, describing by menu various acronyms found in the image captions, evoking elements of the history of the American soldier's ration in the 20th century, and the different technologies developed by the agri-food industry in the manufacture of this communal food.
11 x 17 cm
Soft cover
192 pages (92 photographs)
BETTER FOOD FOR OUR FIGHTING MEN presents a selection of some 100 images dating from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, taken from a U.S. Army research and development center. In this industrial complex, still in operation today, military personnel and civilian contractors work to improve the comfort of soldiers' daily lives and diets.
Feeding the troops is a major logistical, health and psychological challenge for the world's leading army. Here, the enemy is bacteria, and the nerve of war is the supply chain. How to produce, transport, cook and serve food, at all latitudes and in all climates, and in all configurations? These images document the experiments carried out by the nutritionists and logisticians at the army's "food science lab". The visual set is completed by a glossary of 24 entries, describing by menu various acronyms found in the image captions, evoking elements of the history of the American soldier's ration in the 20th century, and the different technologies developed by the agri-food industry in the manufacture of this communal food.
11 x 17 cm
Soft cover
192 pages (92 photographs)
