“A book I read on Allied aircrew escape and evasion in Europe revealed an obscession with food” RWE@12.

George Millar’s books “Horned Pigeon” and “Maquis” both contain long passages on food, recalling his experiences as a PoW in Italy, and as an SOE agent in occupied France. After being captured in North Africa, he was offered a drink by Rommel (about whom the story goes that his ideal war would give him German tanks, British crews, American supplies, and the Italians to fight against).
Food was a comic-tragic obsession in Britain, due to the rationing which would continue until 1954.