Product Description: Simple meals made from a limited range of industrially processed foodstuffs constituted the 'plain fare' which most people in Britain ate from the 1890s until after the Second World War. Dietary surveys show that when wages were low and social conditions poor, health was affected and support the view that malnutrition and dietary deficiencies existed during the first half of the twentieth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: State food policy in Europe has usually concentrated upon quality control and the use of diet to improve national health. Only in times of crisis, notably world war and its aftermath, have governments had to concentrate on the maintenance and regulation of food supply...read more