![]() It’s all beautifully illustrated with some of the museum’s collection of beautiful and often very funny wartime posters. ![]() Victory in the Kitchen is not your usual cookbook: there are no beautiful photographs of food carefully prepared in studios, but instead a collection of simple, delightful and – to our modern palates – unusual recipes from the Second World War. ![]() The real reason, of course, was the development of radar – a secret which the British wanted to keep for as long as possible.Ĭarrots appear in many ingenious guises in a new book called Victory at the Kitchen, published by the Imperial War Museum at £6.99. It was a propaganda triumph, believed to have been introduced in 1940 to explain British pilots’ superiority over the Luftwaffe during night missions. Those benefits, incidentally, do not include better eyesight at night – though that myth emanated from the war as well, with British intelligence spreading the rumour that Vitamin A helped pilots’ vision at night.
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