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Home economics  was crucial to food's modernization in the first third of the twentieth century, as I explore in Modern Food, Moral Food. At the same time, home economics was part of attempts to lengthen human life expectancy, as I discuss in my work on the life extension movement. Meanwhile, home economists -- who positioned themselves as experts on both food and parenting -- had an outsized influence on changing beliefs about children's food in the twentieth century, as I explore in Small Appetites: A History of Children's Food.
* See my New York Times op-ed, "Time to Revive Home Ec."

* Listen to my interview on NPR's Talk of the Nation about home economics.

* Read my New York Times Room for Debate piece on home cooking and bake sales.

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