FEEDING THE GERMAN PUBLIC

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2829, 21 July 1916, Page 5

FEEDING THE GERMAN PUBLIC

BREAKDOWN OF KITCHENS-ON-WHEELS SPARTAN DIET IN BERLIN , Australian-New Zealand Cable Association, Amsterdam, July 19. i The food problem continues _to be acufe. jjr. von UaTocTd has failed to persuado tho Southern States to permit the exportation of foods in order to secure equal distribution. The Prussian authorities strongly resent the action of the southern people. Owing to tho failure of tho "kitchens on wheels," the problem of communal feeding in Berlin is being solved by the use of huge public dining-halls. The first kitchen has ■ sixty-three boilers, holding 30,000 litres of food. Hundreds of women are employed in preparing meals. They use electrical potato cutting machines, gas stoves, and other labour saving appliances. Specially constructed motor-cars carry the food to the distribution depots. ■ • The following is the bill-of-faro for a week—Monday, rice and potatoes; Tuesday, meat; Wednesday, beans and fat: Thursday, meat and macaroni; Friday, beans and potatoes; Saturday, cabbages and potatoes; Sunday, minced meat and potatoes. A portion equal to a litre (nearly a quart) is sold for fourponce. A quarter of a million litres are sold daily in Berlin. The better clnss people are willing to rub shoulders with tlie humblest in the 'common dining-halls.