1948 - Food Availability

Food Availability

Britain ends bread rationing in July as wheat flour becomes more plentiful.

Italy ends food rationing and permits production of higher-quality pasta after years of restrictions, during which wartime black-market activities have doubled the nation's pasta factories from about 1,000 to 2,000. The Germans requisitioned Parma's Barilla bakery from 1943 to 1945 (see 1919), Riccardo Barilla's son Pietro returned from service on the Russian front to find his father ill, and Pietro has taken over management along with his brother Gianni (see 1952).