She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: Food

  • TIME CAPSULE: Sugar Rationing

    After the bombing in Hawaii, following a frantic Monday morning, numerous women prioritized purchasing sugar as their immediate task. Their urgency stemmed from past experiences during the First World War, foreseeing an imminent scarcity. The concern was not just due to the perilous shipment routes for sugar across dangerous seas but also because industries would…

  • Retailers Must Meet Price Orders May 18

    The General Maximum Price Regulation places controls on civilian food items, ensuring that prices cannot exceed the highest prices charged in March of this year. Source: “Retailers Must Meet Price Orders May 18.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 14 May 1942, p. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/image/259177182/?match=2&clipping_id=137082545

  • Victory Gardens – By the Right Gardeners

    Source: “Victory Gardens – By the Right Gardeners.” Business Week, 6 June 1942, p. 68.

  • Candy A Casualty

    Source: “Candy A Casualty.” Business Week, 20 June 1942, pp. 37”“40.

  • Riot Over Poi

    Source: “Riot Over Poi.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 26 June 1942, p. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/127791823/

  • Hard Work Makes Good Appetites

    Source: “Hard Work Makes Good Appetites .” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 7 Sept. 1942, p. 16. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/127203955/

  • Pork Chops on the Hoof

    Source: “Pork Chops on the Hoof.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 10 Sept. 1942, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/127209379/

  • Science: Reconstituted Milk

    One thousand four hundred seasick cows wished that they were in a nice Kansas City slaughterhouse. They were on their way to Panama to supply U.S. Army men with a daily quota of 14,000 quarts of fresh milk. According to Dr. Charles Edward North, Manhattan consulting milk sanitarian and an enthusiastic expert, the unhappy cows…

  • The Who … When .. How .. Why of Coffee Rationing

    Source: Hills Bros Coffee Inc. “The Who … When .. How .. Why of Coffee Rationing .” Anaheim Bulletin, 20 Nov. 1942, p. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/article/anaheim-bulletin/137961591/