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Free for All: Fixing School Food in America
Janet Poppendieck
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Description for Free for All: Fixing School Food in America
Paperback. Taking us on a journey into the nation's school kitchens, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of school food in the United States. It explores the politics of food provision from multiple perspectives - history, policy, nutrition, environmental sustainability, taste, and more. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
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 regulated meals compete with fast food items and snack foods loaded with sugar, salt, and fat? What is the nutritional profile of the federal ... Read more
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 regulated meals compete with fast food items and snack foods loaded with sugar, salt, and fat? What is the nutritional profile of the federal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Series
California Studies in Food and Culture
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520269880
SKU
V9780520269880
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About Janet Poppendieck
Janet Poppendieck is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York. She is the author of Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement and Breadlines Knee Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression.
Reviews for Free for All: Fixing School Food in America
"Meticulously researched, patiently explicated, potentially groundbreaking... Should be required reading for everyone who eats food, buys food, has kids, or cares about nutrition." Bookforum "Sophisticated and nuanced."
Michael O'Donnell The Washington Monthly "[An] excellent, informative book... Poppendieck's research is extensive and meaningful."
Lisa Sasson Gastronomica "A masterful work of public sociology that is likely to play an important ... Read more
Michael O'Donnell The Washington Monthly "[An] excellent, informative book... Poppendieck's research is extensive and meaningful."
Lisa Sasson Gastronomica "A masterful work of public sociology that is likely to play an important ... Read more