Andrew R Ruis

Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat

The Origins of School Lunch in the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

Historian A. R. Ruis explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain why it has been so difficult to establish meal programs that satisfy the often competing interests of children, parents, schools, health authorities, politicians, and the food industry.    

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 263g
• ISBN-13: 9780813584072
• ISBN-10: 0813584078
• Artikelnr.: 45797753

Autorenporträt

A. R. Ruis

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
 
Introduction
1 “The Old-Fashioned Lunch Box . . . Seems Likely to Be Extinct”: The
Promise of School Meals in the United States
2 (Il)Legal Lunches: School Meals in Chicago
3 Menus for the Melting Pot: School Meals in New York City
4 Food for the Farm Belt: School Meals in Rural America
5 “A Nation Ill-Housed, Ill-Clad, Ill-Nourished”: School Meals under
Federal Relief Programs
6 From Aid to Entitlement: Creation of the National School Lunch Program
 
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index