How One Captured Cook's 'RIDICULOUS' Recipe Fed 50,000 Soldiers Daily

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July 12, 1944. St. Lô, Normandy, France. The steel spoon in Demetrios Haritos' hand bent as he slammed it against the rim of the field kitchen pot, his knuckles white with frustration. The thirty-five-year-old Mess Sergeant cursed in a mixture of Greek and English as he surveyed the chaos around him – six smoking field stoves, twenty exhausted KPs, and three thousand hungry soldiers waiting in a line that stretched beyond his vision through the muddy Norman field.