Food

The eating facilities in the camps were large mess halls with long lines and crowded tables. Group living tended to erode family solidarity, as teenagers escaped parental authority by eating with friends rather than family. The quality of the food was poor and milk and fresh meat were constantly in short supply. Inexpensive foods such as wieners, dried fish, pancakes, macaroni and pickled vegetables were served often. The diets of the camp inmates improved only after they began growing some of their own food.

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img Crowd eating breakfast (ddr-densho-37-908)

Included annotation: K-4, Segregants Breakfast.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-908/

img Kelly Ishimoto watering bell pepper plants (ddr-densho-37-2165)

More information included on back of photograph.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-2165/

img Japanese American cooking (ddr-densho-37-106)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-106/

img Preparing lunch at a home economics kitchen (ddr-densho-37-1121)

Included annotation: T-407, Preparing Lunch at Home Economic Kitchen.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1121/

img Japanese American cooking (ddr-densho-37-593)

Original WRA caption: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Student Mary Sakai, former resident of Stockton, California, is shown putting sliced carrots in a double boiler in preparation for the drying process.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-593/

img Japanese Americans cooking (ddr-densho-37-107)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-107/

img Mr. Bennett's birthday cake (ddr-densho-37-1409)

Included annotation: H-506, Mr. Bennett Birthday Cake 5/8.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1409/

img Crowd eating breakfast at Canal (ddr-densho-37-899)

Included annotation: F-5, Segregants breakfast canal.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-899/

img Crowd waiting after breakfast (ddr-densho-37-896)

Included annotation: F-3, After Breakfast, Canal.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-896/

img Japanese Americans cooking (ddr-densho-37-105)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-105/

img Japanese Americans waiting in line for mess hall (ddr-densho-37-812)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Ready to pass into dining room at Manzanar, a War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-812/

img Decorated table (ddr-densho-37-246)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-246/

img Breakfast at Canal (ddr-densho-37-898)

Included annotation: F-4, Segregants Breakfast Canal.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-898/

img Meal in a mess hall (ddr-densho-37-525)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A group of residents loll over their evening meal.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-525/

img Japanese Americans making tofu (ddr-densho-37-155)

Original WRA caption: The precipitate is put into forms and pressed. Later it is cut into smaller cakes and kept in water as shown. Tofu is a kind of "bean curd" considered essential to the Japanese diet. Other pictures in this group show the various processes in the manufacture of this product. To preserve it is …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-155/

img Mary Sakai in a pantry store room (ddr-densho-37-2163)

More information included on back of photograph.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-2163/

img Japanese Americans making tofu (ddr-densho-37-153)

Original WRA caption: Note: The markings on the blackboard, upper right, show the Japanese way of counting in fives to show number of buckets of beans processed. The bucket on the lower right contains soy beans which are soaked over night and then poured into this centrifugal "masher" which revolves at comparatively high speed. The white, …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-153/

img Three children in a camp dining hall (ddr-densho-37-10)

Original WRA caption: Christmas 1944.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-10/

img Japanese Americans making bread (ddr-densho-37-241)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-241/

img Japanese Americans making tofu (ddr-densho-37-157)

Original WRA caption: This product called "Age" is made from the bean curd. This is shown in the picture. The curd is fried in deep soy-bean fat until browned. This factory is operated by the Co-op.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-157/

img Mr. Bennett's birthday cake with candles (ddr-densho-37-1410)

Included annotation: H-505, Mr. Bennett Birthday Cake, 5/8.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1410/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-223)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yoshito Shibata in which he recalls a month long recruitment trip to some of the WRA camps for qualified Niseis to join MIS. His writing includes a mention for being present to an incident at Poston (possibly the Poston Strike or the incidences that lead to the strike). He talks …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-223/

doc Yuriko Domoto's Mess Hall Pass (ddr-densho-356-863)

A Mess Hall Pass assigned to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada that was good in any mess hall.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-863/

doc Letter to Yuri from Rosie Suyeyasu (ddr-densho-356-278)

Letter to Yuri Domoto Tsukada from Rose "Rosie" Nakagawa Suyeyasu. In the letter she writes about the dust storms at Topaz, working as a typist, the approaching of her one year anniversary, a the upcoming wedding of their mutual friend Yo Ishida, the pregnancy of her sister-in-law, the possibility she may resettle in Colorado, and inquires …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-278/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Tomi Domoto (ddr-densho-356-300)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from her cousin Tomi Domoto in which discusses the first month at Jerome and general news about mutual friends. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-300/