Better Food For Our Fighting Men - Editor-in-Chief Matthieu Nicol had
access to recently declassified image archives from a "
The U.S. Army's "Food Science Laboratory," which is responsible for irradiating,
to dehydrate, to thermostabilize, to preserve, to rehydrate, to reheat
and to distribute the soldiers' menus. 92 non-fiction images from the end
from the 60s to the early 90s made up Better Food For Our Fighting Men,
designed to be as compressed as a protein bar. \n \nA glossary of 24
entries explains some of the acronyms used in image captions and
traces the new technologies that have enabled the food industry to
manufacture and supply these rations. As is often the case, innovations
developed by the US military have had multiple applications in life
civil, many of which are now manifesting themselves on the shelves of
supermarkets.
