Rationing and food shortages before, during, and after WWII in Italy, and a recipe from a delightfully quirky 1942 cookbook

The Hunger Winter of the Netherlands at the end of World War II, and a recipe from the famine that includes tulip bulbs

Food supplies and cooking in the Japanese incarceration camps during WWII, and a recipe for tuna noodle casserole from one of the camps’ newspapers

Bomb shelters and the Tube during the Blitz in WWII, and ration-friendly recipes for soup and honey biscuits from the period

Food, rationing, and hunger in Germany during WWII, and a recipe for a casserole from a German magazine early on in the war

Rationing in the UK during World War II, and recipes for mock banana cream and the National Loaf

Rationing and starvation in the Soviet Union during WWII, and a recipe from a wartime cookbook for millet and pumpkin porridge

Rationing and food on the home front in the US during WWII, and a recipe for a mock steak made out of ground beef and Wheaties

The food for Allied troops before, during, and after D-Day, and recipes recreating the last meal before the landing

Ruth Wakefield’s invention of the chocolate chip cookie with the original recipe and a WWII ration-friendly version

How the United States provided Thanksgiving dinner to its troops during WWII, and recipes for classic Thanksgiving sides from the 1944 Cook Book of the United States Navy

The great lengths that the U.S. Navy went to to provide its men with morale-boosting ice cream, and its recipe for a delicious banana nut flavor

The history and evolution of carrot cake and how WWII British propaganda popularized it

An overview of American WWII field kitchens and rations and a recipe for a classic dish straight from a manual written in 1944