Mittelstandsküche
English translation: soup kitchen for the (impoverished) middle class
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peer agreement (net): +4soup kitchen for the (impoverished) middle class Explanation: Die Mitglieder riefen eine sog. Mittelstandsküche ins Leben, die Bedürftige aus der ganzen Stadt versorgte. http://www.lyceumclub-berlin.de/lyc_index.php Mitte der zwanziger Jahre Mütterkurse und Schwangerenfürsorge eingerichtet, des weiteren eine Mittelstandsküche als Reaktion auf die sich in die Mittelschichten hinein ausbreitende Not. http://papinga.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/bisverlag/fleauf95/doc2.... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 56 Min. (2010-08-23 00:02:38 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Gründung der „Mittelstandsküche Hufen“ als Kriegseinrichtung zur Beköstigung Bedürftiger. http://www.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de/~fritsch/NEUMANND.pdf An English rendering: Mittelstandsküchen: middle class kitchens www.unco.edu/history/docs/faculty/clinefelter/Clinefelter58... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 Stunde (2010-08-23 00:14:22 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Authorities' distinction between working-class kitchens (Volksküchen) and those of the lower middle class (Mittelstandsküchen), following prewar practice... Source: Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin Book by Belinda J. Davis; University of North Carolina Press, 2000 -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 Stunde (2010-08-23 00:20:20 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "Kadisch also ran a special soup kitchen for the middle class, which had fallen on hard times during the war." And later in the book: "This article notes that the middle-class soup kitchen was largely for women." Source: Authority, identity and the social history of the Great War By Frans Coetzee, Marilyn Shevin Coetzee |
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