Wartime national kitchens should make a comeback to help families combat the cost of living crisis, according to a leading academic.
Prof Bryce Evans reckons the return of cheap communal dining rooms to the UK's high streets would feed those in need and help take the stigma away from using food banks.
In his new book, Feeding the People in Wartime Britain, Prof Evans, of Liverpool Hope University, examines the impact of nationwide communal dining schemes - or British Restaurants - that first launched in Britain in 1917 and lasted until the 1960s and calls on politicians to consider bringing them back.
