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This page is for connecting with Sarah Creviston Lee, the creator of the Victory Kitchen Podcast.

The podcast explores American food rationing during World War II. Sarah is passionate about sharing history with others and finding ways to connect to the past, especially through experimental history - like sewing, gardening, and recreating old recipes! She believes there is much wisdom to be gleaned from times of yore. She never stops finding cool, profound and powerful things to learn from her research!

10/12/2026

Yesterday I made another recipe from this cookbook, Wartime Meals, but these fun recipes were on the opposite page. The Red Rovers are a carrot raisin oatmeal cookie. And who can pass up an orange vanilla Victory Cake?? 😍

10/07/2026

This wartime menu is an artifact I'm using for my next episode all about restaurants! I love seeing menus with writing in them and this one has old prices blacked out with the new ones written in indicating price increases. So cool! The cover features the Minuteman encouraging customers to buy war bonds. The message to women on the back is especially interesting!

Have you heard of this restaurant in Vermont?

09/28/2026

This is the second book we read for my historic preservation class. It's a unique look at the politics tied up in the preservation of historic houses like Mount Vernon, Orchard House, Monticello, and Booker T. Washington's birthplace. Did you know that George Washington's Mount Vernon House was the first house to be preserved? This fight to save it spanned many years, including the Civil War years which also physically threatened the house. Super fascinating histories in this book!!

09/24/2026

This semester I'm taking my last class before my thesis work. Woohoo! The class is Historic Preservation and the books have been really interesting so far. This is the first book we read. Learning about the history of historic preservation is really helpful in understanding why certain places have been preserved, recreated or ignored.

09/15/2026

Do you prefer margarine or butter? A lot of folks during the Depression and in wartime liked the economy of margarine, but the butter industry and its supporters had pretty strong feelings about that “devil spread”!

Look forward to my next episode on September 28th all about the 80 year fight between butter and margarine and how wartime impacted everything!

09/13/2026

This month we're watching a classic romantic comedy - I Was a Male War Bride! Have you seen this one?

09/10/2026

I'm back in school which means... more reading. 😅 My class is about Historic Preservation. Right now we're learning about the history of the preservation movement in America. I just started this book which focuses on the New Deal era preservation work done by the WPA. It's a really interesting time period to study.
This is my last class before I start my thesis work which means I'm getting really close to the end of my degree! Woohoo! 🥳

09/08/2026

Sometimes I do venture out of the WWII era of history. 😏 Especially for a jaunt with my teenager to the Maryland Renaissance Fair to see Jacques ze Whipper. Jacques was amazing, but going on a Saturday was MADNESS. 😵‍💫

A fun childhood memory of mine was when my sister and I spent a few days with my dad and stepmom when they worked a summer at the Wisconsin? Ren Fair. (Memory is fuzzy on where it was exactly.) My stepmom (a dulcimer player and an incredible singer) dressed us in costume and we were pretty much given the run of the place. At night we stayed in the lodgings behind the village facade, my sister and I sleeping on the floor under the bed. So many vivid memories of jousting, mud wrestling, naughty humor, and wonderful costumes. 😂

08/10/2026

I'm in upstate NY visiting friends which means antiquing of course! Saw lots of fun treasures. These are the ones I left behind. I came home with a few 1940s magazines and a vintage melon baller which I've been on the hunt for! 😄

08/08/2026

The Battleship Island is the first international film for the WWII film club! It was intense, impressive and sobering. I really enjoyed so many things about this movie! Being able to see how other countries storytell aspects of WWII meaningful to them is so fascinating and beautiful, though not always easy.

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