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Smith, Mary Gale – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2016
In 2003, Jennifer Grossman wrote an opinion piece for "The New York Times" titled "Food for Thought (and for Credit)" with the opening sentence: "Want to combat the epidemic of obesity? Bring back home economics." That thought seemed to simmer for awhile and then in 2011, Professor Helen Zoe Veit wrote another opinion…
Descriptors: Obesity, Discourse Analysis, Consumer Economics, Consumer Science
O'Leary, Iris Prouty – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
This bulletin deals with the teaching of cooking for home-making purposes in the day and evening classes of the vocational school. Throughout the bulletin "vocational school" will be used as a term which includes both industrial schools and household-arts schools. Vocational schools include all agricultural, industrial, commercial, and…
Descriptors: Females, Evening Programs, Vocational Schools, Cooking Instruction