1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778685603321

Autore

Poppendieck Janet <1945->

Titolo

Free for all : fixing school food in America / / Janet Poppendieck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, [California] ; ; London, [England] ; ; Los Angeles, [California] : , : University of California Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-36102-3

9786612361029

0-520-94441-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

California Studies in Food and Culture ; ; 28

Disciplina

371.7/160973

Soggetti

National school lunch program

School breakfast programs - United States

Children - Nutrition - United States

School children - Food - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In Search of School Food -- 1. School Food 101 -- 2. Food Fights: A Brief History -- 3. Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: What's Driving the Menu? -- 4. How Nutritious Are School Meals? -- 5. The Missing Millions: Problems of Participation -- 6. Hunger in the Classroom: Problems of Access -- 7. Free, Reduced Price, Paid: Unintended Consequences -- 8. Local Heroes: Fixing School Food at the Community Level -- Conclusion: School Food at the Crossroads -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 meals? How well are they reaching students who need them? Opening a window onto our culture as a whole, Poppendieck reveals the forces--the financial troubles of schools, the commercialization of childhood, the reliance on market models--that are determining how lunch is served. She concludes with a sweeping vision for change: fresh, healthy food for all children as a regular part of their school day.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967000203321

Autore

Klausen Jytte

Titolo

The cartoons that shook the world / / Jytte Klausen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2009

ISBN

9780300155068

0300155069

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

363.4

Soggetti

Caricatures and cartoons - Political aspects - Denmark

Muslims - Denmark - Politics and government - 21st century

Protest movements - Denmark - History - 21st century

Caricatures and cartoons - Political aspects - Islamic countries

Christianity and other religions - Islam

Blasphemy (Islam)

Denmark Relations Islamic countries

Islamic countries Relations Denmark

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The editors and the cartoonists -- The path to a showdown -- The diplomatic protest against the cartoons -- Muslims' "day of rage" -- Seeking the third way -- Muslim iconoclasm and Christian blasphemy -- Danish intolerance and foreign relations -- The freedom agenda rebound -- Chronology.

Sommario/riassunto

On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Five months



later, thousands of Muslims inundated the newspaper with outpourings of anger and grief by phone, email, and fax; from Asia to Europe Muslims took to the streets in protest. This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the conflict that aroused impassioned debates around the world on freedom of expression, blasphemy, and the nature of modern Islam. Jytte Klausen interviewed politicians in the Middle East, Muslim leaders in Europe, the Danish editors and cartoonists, and the Danish imam who started the controversy. Following the winding trail of protests across the world, she deconstructs the arguments and motives that drove the escalation of the increasingly globalized conflict. She concludes that the Muslim reaction to the cartoons was not-as was commonly assumed-a spontaneous emotional reaction arising out of the clash of Western and Islamic civilizations. Rather it was orchestrated, first by those with vested interests in elections in Denmark and Egypt, and later by Islamic extremists seeking to destabilize governments in Pakistan, Lebanon, Libya, and Nigeria. Klausen shows how the cartoon crisis was, therefore, ultimately a political conflict rather than a colossal cultural misunderstanding.