To improve education about food, it is not necessary to bring back the classic home economics coursework, replete with gender-specific stereotypes. Rather, girls and boys should be taught the ...

happier lives and that would align them with the U.S. Dietitians who trained in schools of home economics developed space food. A couple women worked on space food. They were all military.

We hear all the time that Americans are getting fatter, and a cultural preference for prepackaged convenience foods isn’t helping matters. If this is the case, couldn’t a home economics course ...

The Cornell home economics department played a vital role in teaching the local community how to best preserve food surplus during World War I. Photograph courtesy Cornell University Library ...