Feeding Hungry Americans: Diets of the Great Depression

When:
Monday, Apr 03, 2017 6:00p -
8:00p

Where:
College of Arts and Sciences
725 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Food, Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/registration-manager-catalogs/foodandwine/app/catalog.php?action=section&course_section_id=3537

During the Great Depression, the United States—for the first time in history—suffered from widespread hunger and malnutrition. This resulted in radical changes in the federal government's food policies, in the way that Americans think about nutrition, and in our choices of what foods we put on the table. Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe, authors of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression, will look at the many ways that the Depression decade profoundly changed the American relationship toward food. In particular, they will look at the rapid evolution of federal food relief policies and the huge role that the Bureau of Home Economics played in determining what foods the unemployed were given and in shaping
federal nutrition policy.

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