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What do starving people eat? The case of Greece through Oral History

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Abstract

‘Famine foods’ seems a self-explanatory term but careful reading of the existing literature suggests otherwise. ‘Famine foods’ seem to suggest repulsive and unfamiliar foods consumed only in famine situations. This paper, using the Greek famine of 1941-43 as a case study, suggests that this is not the case. Starving people continue to use foods that they are familiar with or that other sections of the population are familiar with. The very poor sections of the population may well use fodder food, which nevertheless they are familiar with and which in most cases was also used by some of their members even in ‘normal’ times.

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Author(s): Hionidou V

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Continuity and Change

Year: 2011

Volume: 26

Issue: 1

Pages: 113-134

ISSN (print): 0268-4160

ISSN (electronic): 1469-218X

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0268416011000014

DOI: 10.1017/S0268416011000014

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