Free for All: Fixing School Food in America

How did our children end up eating nachos, pizza, and Tater Tots for lunch? Taking us on an eye-opening journey into the nation's school kitchens, this superbly researched book is the first to provide a comprehensive assessment of school food in the United States. Janet Poppendieck explores the deep politics of food provision from multiple perspectives—history, policy, nutrition, environmental sustainability, taste, and more. How did we get into the absurd situation in which nutritionally r...