| Portion of title |
Origins of school lunch in the United States |
| Series |
Critical issues in health and medicine series
Critical issues in health and medicine. ^A886083
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| Contents |
ch. 1 "The Old-Fashioned Lunch Box ... Seems Likely to Be Extinct": The Promise of School Meals in the United States -- ch. 2 (Il)Legal Lunches: School Meals in Chicago -- ch. 3 Menus for the Melting Pot: School Meals in New York City -- ch. 4 Food for the Farm Belt: School Meals in Rural America -- ch. 5 "A Nation Ill-Housed, Ill-Clad, Ill-Nourished": School Meals under Federal Relief Programs -- ch. 6 From Aid to Entitlement: Creation of the National School Lunch Program. |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2018). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Ruis, A.R., 1979- Eating to learn, learning to eat. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017] 9780813590486 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9780813584096 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0813584094 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9780813584089 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 0813584086 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9780813590868 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 0813590868 (ebook) |
| Stock number | 22573/ctt1q0fmfg JSTOR |
