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A Square Meal Analysis

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“A Square Meal”, by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe, is a window into the meals, diets, and lives of those who lived during The Great Depression. Personal stories, recipes, and stark photographs flow through the pages, but what runs just deeper in the short novels pages are bleak reminders about how truly hard these times were. The attitudes toward people receiving aid from the government, particularly those using food stamps (an idea introduced recently in the 30’s), were those of distain. Taking handouts or under the deal trades were widely regarded as the vilest or morally wrong thing to do at the time, even as those around you starved to death. Furthermore, the line between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor that contributed to failures
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