Eating to learn, learning to eat : the origins of school lunch in the United States /
Ruis, A. R., 1979-
Eating to learn, learning to eat : the origins of school lunch in the United States / Origins of school lunch in the United States A.R. Ruis. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (ix, 201 pages) : illustrations, maps - Critical issues in health and medicine series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
"The old-fashioned lunch box ... seems likely to be extinct": the promise of school meals in the United States -- (Il)Legal lunches: school meals in Chicago -- Menus for the melting pot: school meals in New York City -- Food for the farm belt: school meals in rural America -- "A nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished": school meals under Federal relief programs -- From aid to entitlement: creation of the National School Lunch Program --
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.
9780813584096 9780813584089 9780813590868
National School Lunch Program (U.S.)
National school lunch program--History.
Children--Nutrition.
Politics, Practical.
Schools.
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Government Programs--history
Nutrition Policy--history
Politics
Lunch
Schools
Socioeconomic Factors
Electronic Books.
LB3479 / .E285 2017
Eating to learn, learning to eat : the origins of school lunch in the United States / Origins of school lunch in the United States A.R. Ruis. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (ix, 201 pages) : illustrations, maps - Critical issues in health and medicine series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
"The old-fashioned lunch box ... seems likely to be extinct": the promise of school meals in the United States -- (Il)Legal lunches: school meals in Chicago -- Menus for the melting pot: school meals in New York City -- Food for the farm belt: school meals in rural America -- "A nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished": school meals under Federal relief programs -- From aid to entitlement: creation of the National School Lunch Program --
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.
9780813584096 9780813584089 9780813590868
National School Lunch Program (U.S.)
National school lunch program--History.
Children--Nutrition.
Politics, Practical.
Schools.
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Government Programs--history
Nutrition Policy--history
Politics
Lunch
Schools
Socioeconomic Factors
Electronic Books.
LB3479 / .E285 2017