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Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States
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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Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States
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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Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States
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.
A. R. RUIS is a fellow in the department of surgery and department of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a researcher in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
Table of Contents
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
