Famine food of vegetal origin consumed in the Netherlands during World War II

Vorstenbosch, Tom; de Zwarte, Ingrid; Duistermaat, Leni; van Andel, Tinde

doi:10.1186/s13002-017-0190-7

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Famine food of vegetal origin consumed in the Netherlands during World War II

Published in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine • Nov 17, 2017

Authors:

Tom Vorstenbosch

Ingrid de Zwarte

Leni Duistermaat

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Periods of extreme food shortages during war force people to eat food that they normally do not consider edible. The last time that countries in Western Europe experienced severe scarcities was during World War II. The so-called Dutch famine or Hunger Winter (1944-1945) made at least 25,...

Subject

Famine

Ethnobotany

Geography

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