Lunchbox Lecture: Mealtime in the Mess Halls: Food in the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II

During World War II, 120,000 Japanese Americans attempted to adjust to their lives behind barbed wire at one of 10 incarceration camps—and this included encountering new food served in the mess halls.

August 03, 2022, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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+ Add to calendar 2022-08-03 12:00:00 PM 2022-08-03 1:00:00 PM America/Mexico_City Hall of Democracy Auditorium and Vimeo, Online Event 945 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130 Lunchbox Lecture: Mealtime in the Mess Halls: Food in the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II During World War II, 120,000 Japanese Americans attempted to adjust to their lives behind barbed wire at one of 10 incarceration camps—and this included encountering new food served in the mess halls.
Location: Hall of Democracy Auditorium and Vimeo, Online Event
945 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130

By Stephanie Hinnershitz, PhD, Senior Historian, Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, The National WWII Museum

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During World War II, 120,000 Japanese Americans attempted to adjust to their lives behind barbed wire at one of 10 incarceration camps—and this included encountering new food served in the mess halls. Thousands of Japanese Americans ate staples like SPAM and hot dogs for the first time and also grew more familiar fruits and vegetables in small victory gardens while in the camps. They experienced wartime changes in the food they ate and the culinary traditions they struggled to keep alive when faced with limits on their freedom.

This Lunchbox Lecture is free and open to the public to attend in The National WWII Museum’s Hall of Democracy Auditorium. For those unable to make it to the Museum’s campus, the lecture will also be livestreamed on Facebook, Vimeo, and YouTube, and will be available as a recording afterward on all platforms.

For additional information, please email Maggie Hartley, EdD, Director of Public Engagement, at maggie.hartley@nationalww2museum.org.

This program is proudly sponsored by AARP Louisiana.