Wheatless Wednesdays; Meatless Mondays; Porkless Patriots Today’s What’s Cooking Wednesday features food history from 1918.  As head of the U.S. Food Administration during World War I, Herbert Hoover urged Americans to avoid the forced planing and rationing common to Europe through voluntary food conservation.  These printed reminders were hung in households that pledged to “Hooverize.” -From the Hoover Library
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Wheatless Wednesdays; Meatless Mondays; Porkless Patriots

Today’s What’s Cooking Wednesday features food history from 1918.  As head of the U.S. Food Administration during World War I, Herbert Hoover urged Americans to avoid the forced planing and rationing common to Europe through voluntary food conservation.  These printed reminders were hung in households that pledged to “Hooverize.”

-From the Hoover Library

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