Plain fare : diet during industrialization -- Food supply, shops and food safety, 1890 to 1914 -- Nutrition, environment and health before 1914 -- The Great War and its aftermath, 1914 to 1921 : discontent on the food front -- Food and food technology in the interwar years -- The question of malnutrition between the wars -- The Second World War : the myth of a planned diet, 1939 to 1950 -- The revival of choice : food technology, retailing and eating in postwar Britain -- Food consumption, nutrition and health since the Second World War -- Overview : change in the twentieth century
Summary
An account of one hundred years of diet (including political influences) and its reflection in the population's health - from wartime deprivation to fast food overkill
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-261) and index
