Pane, Pasta, e la Paesana: Women Under Italian Fascism, 1922-1943

O THE WOMEN FALLS an assignment that is just as vital: to discipline and reduce [food] waste.The first discipline is in the system of life.We need to return to simplicity, back to a sober life, austere, and economical life.The woman needs to begin this for herself and her family.But the woman also needs to ration the consumption of foodstuffs and deny entry to products created by countries that are participating, by using [economic] sanctions, in the 1 Virginio Gayda, "Alle Donne Italiane" [To Italian Women], La Cucina Italiana XIV (Nov.1935), 1.