THE FIRST W RLD WAR IN OBJECTS
NO.31
DESPITE THE challenges that food shortages, increasing prices and rationing created for the wartime chef, both on the Home Front and overseas, special events frequently provided the ideal opportunity for a celebratory meal – and the menus produced for such occasions often became treasured mementoes. It is, therefore, perhaps unsurprising that the menu seen here, relating to a dinner held at the Spa Hotel in Ripon for the Seaforth Highlanders football team has survived for nearly a century. It was initially kept by one of the players, George Eric Bentley.
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