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History of School Lunch programs in the United States

How Did Food Stamps Begin?

Mississippi convicts pardoned for eating diet suspected of causing pellagra

New York City guts successful school lunch program in 1919

No more bread-and-water punishment in Navy

Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 full text

Tasty menu at Alcatraz federal prison in September 1946

The “Poison Squad” men who tested food additives on themselves

Books of Interest

Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression

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Dangerous Digestion: The Politics of American Dietary Advice

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Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives

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Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

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Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy Benevolence

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Politics of Purity: Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy

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Prison Food in America

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School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America’s Favorite Welfare Program

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