
Distribution of wine was frequent as much as possible. In North Africa dependance by logistic chain was total (and steal in stores frequent).Ībout what kind of food, italian troop food was based on the usual national diet with large use of pasta (quite always maccheroni, nicknamed "tubes" by troops) and canned meat and vegetables. That's overall in Russia where was possible finding food on territory. Rigoni Stern narrates as alpine troops on Don river reached to self-cook the "polenta", one of the most appreciated meals by mountain soldiers. huge distance between officers and troops: they ate always different food on separate sides lack of honesty, a lot of stuff destined to soldiers took always other directions lack of organization, italian field kitchen in the desert were built to use.wood as fuel too much distance between kitchens and troops, meal on frontline arrived always cold (in Russia and Albania breezed) There's a lot of anedoctes, we could isolate some general trend:
