“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower

“War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof that we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.”
M.F.K.Fisher

Historically, war has been both an agent of destruction and a catalyst for innovation. We invite essays that look at the myriad ways that war has affected food production, distribution, and consumption. Some sub-topics include:

-the provisioning of military personnel and civilian war workers
-the agro-ecological effects of warfare
-government food policies during wartime
-how military needs have affected food technologies
-civilian adaptations to wartime deprivation
-inequities in wartime food consumption
-the impact of occupying armies on local foodways (and vice versa)
-cultural representations of food and war
-wartime food propaganda
-food, war, and the body

Approaches may incorporate a variety of fields, including literature, film, visual and performing arts, historical studies, and the social sciences. And for the sake of perspective and comparison, we especially welcome articles that look at non-western and pre-modern case studies.