Description: You have Stepped into the place that is very Sear to any soldier's heart,—the kitchen. This one is maintained by a group of swarthy Frenchmen who are fighting on the Salonica front. You can tell that there is a screen of some kind over the kitchen because you can see one of the poles behind the forks.
Those huge iron kettles that are steaming over the open fire are the chief reliance of the French cook. In those he prepares the soups that form a large part of the soldier's fare. Next to the kettle is a sheet of iron over another fire that serves as a grill and stove top and in the far corner you can see a tiny stove that they have found somewhere, perhaps in the abandoned home of some peasant family. Two forks, a few ladles, a dipper and a frying pan and a few kettles are all the equipment that they need.
Sweaters that are very loose at the neck, such as the man with the ladle is wearing, are favorites with the French, being warmer and more comfortable than the white cotton shirts such as the man at your left is wearing.
This kitchen has been located in a trench and screened over. In that way it cannot be easily observed by the enemy and is immune from everything but a direct hit.
- Excerpt from: The World War through the stereoscope a visualized, vitalized history of the greatest conflict of all the ages / / edited by Major Joseph Mills Hanson.
- Published/Created by: Meadville, Pa.; New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; London, England:
- Keystone View Company, photographed between 1914 and 1918, published 1923
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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