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...buying is complicated by a growing list of shortages and its efficiency is threatened by a lack of manpower, the food system of Harvard University still fulfills its primary task of feeding a city of 5700 people three times a day. All the work it takes to bring a lamb from the farm to the stew on a student's plate is centralized on the top floor of Lehman Hall in the offices of Roy L. Westcott, manager of the dining halls...
...available in quantity one week is priceless the next. Meat and butter have been the latest victims of war shortages. Recently a steward planned to have roast beef for a House dinner. The order was placed and the menu printed, when the dealer announced that he could only procure lamb. Even Boston's great staple, seafood, is becoming scarce as the war intrudes upon the activities of offshore fishermen...
...goods are piled up in the storerooms while refrigerated rooms of varying temperatures preserve the perishables. Opening the massive door to the sub-freezing meat storage room, an attendant tells of the steaks and whole animals which once filled the room where now hangs only a lonely side of lamb...
Lucius Beebe cast his eye back over the bloody year of 1942, recalled baked lobster Savannah, soft-shell crabs, roulade of sand crabs, jugged saddle of hare, monies marinières, rack of lamb, shrimp Creole, Strasbourg foie gras, Dom Perignon champagne, pompano belle meunière, venison steak grand veneur, shad roe bonne femme, terrapin stew, escallopini of veal, oysters Rockefeller, pheasant in casserole and eggs gashouse. . . . Concluded the Lucullan Lucius: "Betcha it won't be like this next year...
...York, beef stocks were 35% of normal, may be exhausted by year's end. Beef for bologna, a big item in New York, was 20% of normal; pork, 50%; lamb, 40%. Butter sales were restricted, sometimes to a quarter-pound per customer. Canned fruits and vegetables generally were limited to two cans per customer. Canned milk was almost impossible to get, but Mayor LaGuardia announced that arrangements were made to honor physicians' prescriptions ordering milk for babies and whipped cream for the ailing...