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L'Ecole Culinaire: 1917

New York, August 9, 1917. "Teaching Army cooks, Pratt Institute." 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

New York, August 9, 1917. "Teaching Army cooks, Pratt Institute." 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

 

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In the pot

Looks like he's stirring that stew with a 2x4.

Army cooking

They were probably taught out of this manual. A proposed week's menu. My mother told me of a friend's father, an Army cook in WWI, who ran a seaside boardinghouse in the mid '40s. He would serve beef stew for breakfast, which she found unusual but tasty.

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