Description
Beef Stew for 2500: Feeding Our Navy From the Revolutionary War to the Present Signed
Genre(s): Cooking, Methods, History, Military, Naval
Series:
Format: Paperback
Features: Signed
Condition: Used
Year: 2008
This book looks at “Navy Chow” from the earliest days of our nation’s history to today’s modern fleets around the globe. Brief histories describing the evolution of naval cooking appear at the beginning of each chapter. Based on actual events these authentic descriptions of life at sea bring the reader face to face with food procurement and preparation aboard our nation’s fighting ships. Chapters include actual ships and crews dealing with the provisioning of their crews during the the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War II, the Vietnam War, and our modern fleets today.–Book flap.
