5 Quotes by Jane Ziegelman

Lessons in “eating American,” it was thought, would not only breed good citizens but also improve the morale, scholarship, and health of the students.

FDR recoiled from the plebeian food foisted on him as president; perhaps no dish was more off-putting to him than what home economists referred to as “salads,” assemblages made from canned fruit, cream cheese, gelatin, and mayonnaise.

More than a food, the pickle was a kind of drug for tenement children, who were still too young for whiskey.

Unknown to them, spring fever was in fact a vitamin deficiency, mostly likely scurvy, brought on by the winter diet. IN.

Unfortunately, Hoover’s calculation rested on an oversight: The distribution of America’s new wealth was severely lopsided, the overwhelming share flowing directly into the bank accounts of the very rich, leaving the poor with few or no gains at all.