Eighty years since the end of World War II, the British are recalling many battles fought on the path to victory. Yet one seldom, if ever, gets mentioned, and it was one of the most consequential—the ...

HAVANA – The ration book that determines most Cuban diets – and that will briefly rule mine – fits in my palm. Thick brown pages list amounts of foodstuffs to be checked, signed and stamped at “la ...

On the run-up to Christmas in 1944, the Tribune published a recipe for fruit-candy gifts, above which was a list that, at this distance, seems encrypted. “Sugar stamps 30 through 34 [book 4], 5 lbs ...

Troops who have a beef with the modern-day military ration should instead be counting their lucky stars. The original K-ration made for World War II was much, much worse. The biscuit was so hard that ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Ancel Keys, the University of Minnesota scientist who invented the K ration diet used by soldiers in World War II and who linked high cholesterol and fatty diets to heart disease, has ...