The Hot School Lunch For Rural Schools

Excerpt from The Rural School Lunch In most of the high schools of our large cities, the warm lunch has been established, as the relation between proper food and healthful mental development is well recognized. When it is suggested for the rural school, however, where its need is more deeply felt, many persons think its accomplish ment impossible. The warm lunch, when this term is used, refers, of course, _to that portion of the whole lunch which is prepared. At school. It supplements, but does not supplant, the lunch brought from home. The instruction given, however, should have reference to the whole lunch, food values and dietetics in general. The aim of this little booklet is to show how the warm noon lunch can be successfully managed in any consolidated or rural school. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

In Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat, historian A. R. Ruis explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain why it was (and, to some extent, has continued to be) so difficult to establish meal programs that satisfy the often competing interests of children, parents, schools, health authorities, politicians, and the food industry. Through careful studies of several key contexts and detailed analysis of the policies and politics that governed the creation of school meal programs, Ruis demonstrates how the early history of school meal program development helps us understand contemporary debates over changes to school lunch policies.