Title: The Origins and development of food policies in Europe /
Authors: Burnett, John, 1925-2006; Oddy, Derek J.
Publisher: Leicester University Press ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Nutrition policy Europe History Congresses.; Nutrition policy Europe History Congresses.; Diet Europe History Congresses.; Diet Europe History Congresses.; Food supply Government policy Europe History Congresses.; Food supply Government policy Europe History Congresses.; Nutrition Policy history; Food Supply history; Diet history
Abstract: Contains the edited papers from the International Commission for Research into European Food History conference held in 1991 at Brunel University, West Germany. The conference was devoted to the development of European food policies, principally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Several of the papers illustrate the significance of philanthropy in the initiation of food policies, others illustrate the voluntary initiatives for the feeding of poor schoolchildren in The Netherlands and England. Another paper demonstrates the ways in which scientists began to be incorporated into some sectors of the British food industry between 1870 and 1940, especially into some of the newer consumer industries where quality control was particularly important. Several papers are concerned with the introduction of new foods, illustrating how, in general, food habits are remarkably conservative and resistant to change; others illustrate the administrative difficulties of establishing rationing systems in the First World War.
Contents: Black bread and social peace : Italy's dietary politics during the First World War / Maria Concetta Dentoni -- The rationing system in Bohemia during the First World War / Lydia Petránová -- The policy of survival : food, the state and social relations in Belgium, 1914-1921 / Peter Scholliers -- The rise and decline of school meals in Britain, 1860-1990 / John Burnett -- Feeding schoolchildren in the Netherlands : conflict between state and family responsibilities / Adel P. den Hartog -- The political history of Norwegian nutrition policy / Thor Øivind Jensen -- Hygiene and the control of food in Finnish towns at the turn of the century : a case study from Helsinki / Marjatta Hietala -- Quality control and research : the role of scientists in the British food industry, 1870-1939 / Sally M. Horrocks.