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Besides the fast food items, innovations in dining hall menus also include shrimp and chicken stirfries, couscous, and tabouli. Although these have received mixed reviews from students, it appears they are here to stay...
...major force in guiding menu changes is student input, she says. If students want quick, tasty and nutritional foods, then Dining Services says it must respond with fast food menus. Hennessy says that the only constraints in implementing new ideas are limited space, time and labor to prepare foods in the various kitchens...
Some critics are worried that lowered RDAs may be used by the Government to drop nutritional standards and justify further cuts in subsidies for the poor. The military, hospitals, nursing homes and prisons rely on the RDA tables in preparing menus. They are also the basis for the labeling of packaged foods. In addition, food stamps and school lunch programs are tied to the RDAs. Says Lynn Parker, senior nutritionist at the Food Research and Action Center in Washington: "The recommendations could have potentially devastating effects on federal food assistance programs." But the academy panel carefully dissociates itself from...
...Asia coincided with the new American obsession with health. This fare seemed to meet the demand for proteins other than meat (bean curd or tofu, fish, beans), less animal fat and more complex carbohydrates (rice or noodles). Indeed, many of these ingredients first appeared in this country on the menus of health-food restaurants...
Once within the Ivy walls, students lived in a luxury which makes today's accommodations pale in comparison. Every Harvard undergrad had his own bedroom, daily maid service, and waitresses to serve him as he selected his meal from printed menus in College dining halls--and all this for a tuition of $400, a room fee averaging $240 a year, and $9,50 a week for meals, according to the Harvard Archives records...