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“It is not the facilities of the cooking stove which make for good food, it is the expertise and care of the cook.”
― Janet MacDonald, Feeding Nelson's Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era

“There has been a more recent case, known to the historians at the Admiralty Library as ‘the great mashed potato mutiny’. At Singapore in 1945 the crew of the landing ship Northway were served badly-prepared reconstituted mashed potato after some had spent the morning peeling real potatoes (it transpired that the cooks had managed to burn these). This was the trigger to down tools and refuse orders to fall in, but again this single incident was not the sole cause, having been preceded by some weeks of complaints about the food in general.”
― Janet MacDonald, Feeding Nelson's Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era