Military Food & War College catalog

Sun Jan 25 23:52:57 UTC 2004

Here are some "military food" titles that I found interesting.  Anything else
I should consider?  Keep in mind that I'm visiting the library for only one
day.

Rebel cornbread and Yankee coffee : authentic Civil War cooking and
camaraderie / Garry Fisher.
[Birmingham, Ala.?] : Crane Hill Publishers, c2001.
Subjects United States. Army -- Commissariat -- History -- 19th century
Confederate Sates of America. Army -- Commissariat.
Cookery, Military -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Food supply.
Operational rations (Military supplies) -- United States -- History -- 19th
century.
Operational rations (Military supplies) -- Confederate States of America.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music.
Description: ix, 115 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-114).

ISBN: 1575871750 (pbk.)

A soldier's simple cooking recipes for cooking in trenches and billets : with
vocabulary of French words / by Major and Mrs. J. Noel.
London : Harrison, [191-?]
Subjects Cookery, Military.
Soldiers -- Billeting.
Operational rations (Military supplies)
Description: 34 p. ; 17 cm.

The development of special rations for the army / by Harold W. Thatcher.
[Washington] : Historical Section, General Administrative Services Division,
Office of the Quartermaster General, 1944.
Subjects United States. Army -- Supplies and stores.
United States. Army -- Commissariat.
Operational rations (Military supplies)
Rations.
Description: 132 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.

Notes: "September 1944"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series: QMC historical studies. Series 2 ; no. 6

Special rations for the Armed Forces, 1946-53 / by Franz A. Koehler.
Washington, D.C. : Historical Branch, Office of the Quartermaster General,
1958.
Subjects Operational rations (Military supplies) -- United States.
United States -- Armed Forces -- Commissariat.
Description: xvii, 377 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p.357.
Library's copies 1 and 2 signed and inscribed by author.

Series: QMC historical studies. Series 2 ; series 2, no. 6

1862 manual for Army cooking / with an essay by Elizabeth Stroud Kory.
Norristown, Pa. : Norristown Press, 1993.
Subjects United States. Army -- Commissariat.
Cookery, Military -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Operational rations (Military supplies)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Food supply.
Description: xx, 14, [1] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes a reproduction of "Campfires and camp cooking, or, culinary
hints for the soldier : including receipt for making bread in the portable
field oven' furnished by the Subsistence Department" by Captain James M.
Sanderson. Published for distribution to the troops. Headquarters, Army of the Potomac,
Jan., 1862. Washington : G.P.O., 1862.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xx).

The open mess cook's manual "tricks of the trade" / [compiled by H.J.
Schaimck].
[United States?] : United States Army Pacific, [19--]
Subjects United States. Army -- Messes -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
United States. Army. Pacific Command -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Cookery, Military -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: [1], 176 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Notes: Cover title.
"A non appropriated fund publication for open mess culinary personnel."
Caption title: USARPAC open mess cook's manual.

Manual of military cooking, 1916.
Ottawa : Govt. Print. Bureau, 1916.
Subjects Canada. Canadian Army -- Commissariat.
Cookery, Military -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: 68 p. : ill., forms, plan ; 20 cm.

Notes: Attributed to the Dept. of Militia and Defence.

Feeding our armed forces / by Eleanor Hoffmann.
New York : T. Nelson, c1943.
Subjects United States. Army -- Commissariat.
United States. Army -- Supplies and stores.
Description: 86 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Feeding the frontier army, 1775-1865 / Barbara K. Luecke.
Eagan, Minn. : Grenadier Publications, 1990.
Subjects United States. Army -- Messes.
United States. Army -- Commissariat.
Cookery, Military.
Description: vi, 141 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-141).

ISBN: 0962102016

>From haversack to checkout counter : a brief history of the Army commissary
system / by Michael E. Hucles ; design and editing by Ronald J. Kelly.
Fort Lee, Va. : U.S. Army Troop Support Agency, 1991.
Subjects United States. Army -- Commissariat -- History.
Description: 137 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Shipping list no.: 91-447-P.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Govt. Document no.: D 106.2:H 29

Legislative history of the Subsistence Department of the United States Army
from June 16, 1775, to August 15, 1876 / compiled under the direction of the
Commissary-General of Subsistence by John W. Barriger.
Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1877.
Subjects United States. Army -- Commissariat.
United States. Army -- Supplies and stores.
Edition: 2nd ed.

Description: 113, xv p. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Manual for Army cooks / prepared for the use of students of the School for
Bakers and Cooks by C.A. Bach.
Fort Riley, Kan. : Mounted Service School Press, 1912.
Subjects United States. Army -- Commissariat.
Cookery, Military.
Description: [2], 110, [8] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.

Notes: "Supplement no.1."
Includes index.

The mess sergeant's handbook / prepared by L.R. Holbrook ; assisted by
Patrick Dunne.
[United States? : s.n.], c1910.
Subjects United States. Army -- Commissariat.
Armies -- Commissariat.
Cookery, Military.
Description: 108 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.

Notes: Includes tables.

The mess officer's assistant : prepared for officers of the Mounted Service
School taking the course in mess management at the Training School for Bakers
and Cooks / by L.R. Holbrook.
[Fort Riley, Kan.] : Mounted Service School Press, 1909.
Subjects United States. Army -- Commissariat.
Armies -- Commissariat.
Cookery, Military.
Description: [2], 164 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill., forms ; 17 cm.

Notes: On cover: Training school for bakers and cooks.
Includes tables.
Includes index.

Recipes used in the cooking schools, U.S. Army.
Washington [D.C.] : G.P.O., 1906.
Subjects United States. Army -- Commissariat.
Cookery, Military.
Description: 34 p. ; 19 cm.

The story of a troop mess / by James A. Moss.
Menasha, Wis. : G. Banta, c1909.
Subjects United States. Army -- Messes.
United States. Army -- Commissariat.
Description: 85 p. : ill., form ; 20 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

The bartenders manual "bars are big business" / [compiled by H. J. Schainck].

[United States?] : United States Army Pacific, [19--]
Subjects United States. Army -- Messes -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
United States. Army. Pacific Command -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Bartending -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: [2], 35 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Notes: Cover title.
"A non appropriated fund publication for open mess bar personnel."
Caption title: USARPAC open mess bartender's manual.

A cook's tour of World War II : from Yosemite to Utah Beach and beyond with
Staff Sergeant Al Akers and the 850th Engineer Aviation Battalion / Richard K.
Long.
Ann Arbor, Mich. : Sabre Press, c1990.
Subjects Akers, Al, 1898-1952.
United States. Army. Engineer Aviation Battalion, 850th.
United States. Army -- Messes.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
Description: xii, 209 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199) and index.

ISBN: 1879094010

The soldier's mess / by Sherrard Coleman.
[Chicago?] : Q.M. Corps, 1929.
Subjects United States. Army -- Messes.
Edition: Rev. September, 1929.

Description: 81 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Cover title.

Series: Bulletin (Quartermaster Corps Subsistence School (U.S.)) ; no. 27,
series 10.