Minutes, meeting of the Food Committee Lists members present, plus E H Starling and A E Humphries. Committee business, including an agreement that W B Hardy should continue to act as Vice-Chairman in the absence of Sir Alfred Kempe -- adoption of a memo on potatoes -- consideration of correspondence from T H Middleton on potatoes, and appointment of a sub-committee to deal with the issue -- correspondence from the Board of Agriculture asking for the Committee's data on the diet of the labourer -- adoption of a memo on condensed foods from America -- the sending of a memo to Cuthbert Laws, of the Shipping Federation, indicating that the proposed lifeboat rations are not sufficient -- consideration of the effect of external temperature on dietary requirements -- drafting of a letter to the Prime Minister indicating that the committee had not been consulted on the Ministry's latest rationing scheme -- a letter from Frederic Nathan on the possible use of fatty acids created in munitions manufacture -- a letter from the Committee for the Production and Distribution of Milk. p130-143. 12 November 1917