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Jane Ziegelman

Biography

Jane Ziegelman

Jane Ziegelman is the director of the Tenement Museum's culinary center and the founder and director of Kids Cook!, a multiethnic cooking program for children. Her writing on food has appeared in numerous publications, and she is the co-author of FOIE GRAS: A Passion. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Jane Ziegelman

Books by Jane Ziegelman

by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe - Cooking, History, Nonfiction

The decade-long Great Depression forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929, America’s relationship with food was defined by abundance. But the collapse of the economy, in both urban and rural America, left a quarter of all Americans out of work and undernourished. In 1933, as women struggled to feed their families, President Roosevelt reversed long-standing biases toward government-sponsored “food charity.” For the first time in American history, the federal government assumed, for a while, responsibility for feeding its citizens. The effects were widespread. Championed by Eleanor Roosevelt, “home economists” who had long fought to bring science into the kitchen rose to national stature.