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Eating to learn, learning to eat : the origins of school lunch in the United States / A.R. Ruis.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 201 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813584096
  • 9780813584089
  • 9780813590868
Other title:
  • Origins of school lunch in the United States
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • LB3479 .E285 2017
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Contents:
"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 --
Subject: 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.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction LB3479.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1000616917

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.

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