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The Problem of Changing Food Habits Report of the Committee on Food Habits 1941-1943 (1943) / Chapter Skim
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Food Habits of Selected Subcultures in the United States
Pages 97-103

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From page 97...
... Therefore they include living and working conditions, the family scene, the levels of education encountered, characteristic types of social organization, and the ways and means by which the diet might be improved. Since the funds at the disposal of the Committee did not permit the recruiting of an extensive field staff, several methods have been devised which permit short cuts in the compilation of material, thus providing a substitute for door-to-door interviews.
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From page 98...
... Miss Nizzardini is a social worker who has had extensive experience in community work where many were from the Italian background group. This work and her own life enabled her to give much excellent information which was used in the study.
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From page 99...
... Miss Tenet has done extensive field work among village communities in southern Poland and has uncorked on Polish newspapers in this country. POLES Although a varied food picture obtained in Poland, it was sufficiently homogeneous to set the keynote for a characteristic group of food habits prevalent among Poles in America.
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From page 100...
... Children left home, set out on their own, and became Americanized as rapidly as possible. With this Americanization came the abandonment of the rich vegetable soups, the bean soups, and the sour cream and cottage cheese dishes which made Polish diet so good.
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From page 101...
... `bcu~t? `res Con heavy noonday meal of stew or roasts has given way to a sandwich lunch eaten hastily on the premises or in a nearby restaurant, while their wonted supper of vegetables, ends, sausage, and cheese has been displaced by a heavy cooked ~ _ ,.
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From page 102...
... The fundamental premise ot this study nas been that there are no American Negro food habits. The rural Negro in the South eats substantially the same food as does his White neighbor of similar economic circumstance, while the Negro school teacher or physician reared in the North eats the same food which his White counterpart serves.
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From page 103...
... All of these are problems which are now facing many Americans for the first time, but to the working Negro mother they are an old story. To alter her food habits, the techniques used to approach White persons of like education, class level, and region should be used.
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Key Terms

  • food patterns
  • white persons
  • traditional diet
  • nutrition education
  • domestic worker

  • enriched bread
  • sour cream
  • central european
  • woman domestic
  • american negroes

  • extensive field
  • poles hold
  • food fantasy
  • joint efforts
  • counterpart serves

  • thompson walker
  • white counterpart
  • vegetable soups
  • elaborate series
  • leftovers home

  • country adopt
  • rural negro
  • food picture
  • conservative married
  • method involves

  • school teachers
  • fraternal annuals
  • economic odds
  • child mushrooms
  • economic conditions


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