Wartime Kitchen: Food and eating in Singapore 1942-1950
Wong Hong Suen
Singapore: Editions Didier Millet and National Museum of Singapore, 2009
ISBN: 9789814217583

Wartime Kitchen examined the experience of people from the fall of Singapore in December 1942 up to 1949-50. The return of the British in September 1945 did not bring a significant improvement in food supply and required continued adaptation to food shortages.

This book is a miscellany of memories, which are valued for how they reveal the textures of everyday life, lend an immediacy and vividness to events, and flesh out the details embedded in archived records. It focuses on the memories of the local population rather than that of the expatriate.