Loyalty recipes, patriotic food trucks and Food Shows: A history of American World War I food and drink

Should your food choices be the way your community and the state determines if you’re in fact a patriotic or “good” American? In wartime America in 1917-1918…that absolutely happened. The history of food and drink in wartime America is a fascinating reality where a new federal organization, the Food Administration—sought to influence American food consumption choices nationwide…and needed the public’s help to do it.