This historic survival meal was given to soldiers during the American Civil War, but its roots go much deeper than that.

C-rations were the infamous canned meals that fueled many American troops during the Vietnam War. The proper name for the meals is ‘Meal, Combat, Individual (MCI),’ but C-rat’ is how most ...

Countries including Sweden, Finland and Norway are handing out pamphlets advising citizens on how to survive a potential ...

Two bars that Hershey's devised for the U.S. military: Ration D, and the tastier (and more enduring) Tropical Chocolate Bar, which soldiers received as late as 1991.

From Rations to Riches: A Pineapple Cake of the Great War Era transforms wartime simplicity into a dessert worth celebrating. Inspired by the resourcefulness of Homefront bakers during World War I ...

A delicious cake in one hand, a page of rationing stamps in the other. Swans Down cake flour was a product of the Igleheart Brothers Mills of Evanston, Indiana created in 1894.

The risk of famine in Sudan has extended close to the capital Khartoum, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has warned as the country’s brutal civil war grinds on into its third year.