What's For Dinner?

Tonight's Guest: Janet Poppendieck Agricultural surpluses in the 1920s and massive Depression era hunger eventually led to the first federal food aid, but not before baby pigs ran through midwestern city streets. Janet Poppendieck recounts the story told in Breadlines Knee Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression. A highly regarded scholar and an activist, sociologist and college professor at Hunter College, Jan has worked on poverty, hunger, and food assistance in the United States for 40 years. The interview and her books are deep with anecdote and policy analysis, but they don't stint on ironic unforgettable detail - Free for All: Fixing School Food in America (2011) and Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement (1998).