The Ministry of Food

Rationing, frugal cooking, the rise of allotments and creative uses of new ingredients including dried eggs and Spam are revisited in this tribute to the nation's resourcefulness in the face of the hardships of wartime food production and cooking. Exhibits exploring the challenging business of getting sufficient calories and nutrients during WW2 and in its aftermath include recreations of a typical 1940s greenhouse, kitchen and grocer's shop as well as economy recipes, posters, radio recordings and film footage of gardening and nutrition advice from Lord Woolton's Ministry of Food. The exhibition also celebrates the ways in which housewives, lorry drivers and the Merchant Navy played their part in keeping the the country fed.