What You Eat Now, You Cannot Plant Later

During the bitterly cold winter of 19 forty one, 19 forty two, a hundred thousand people in besieged lenengrad died each month. One woman was so thin she was mistakenly stacked with corpses, until her husband insisted she was still breathing. People reported that the rodent population was worse than normal that first winter because people had resorted to eating all the cats. The potatoes were the hardest of all because they required warmth.