Prairie Fare: Why do we eat what we eat?

“You probably looked like the little girl on the cover,” my husband commented.

“I wasn’t alive in 1943, but she does look a little like me, I suppose,” I remarked as I looked at the pin-curled blonde girl in a vintage dress.

I was looking at a “Health for Victory Meal Planning Guide” prepared by the Home Economics Institute during World War II. My set of antique magazines inspire me sometimes.

What d…