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Consumer and Food Economics Institute (U.S.)
A practical voice from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, this institute produced clear, everyday guides on food, nutrition, budgeting, and home cooking. Its publications helped generations of readers make sense of what to eat, how to preserve it, and how to stretch a household budget.
1 Audiobook
Selections from Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes and USDA Favorites
by Ruth Van Deman, Fanny Walker Yeatman, Consumer and Food Economics Institute (U.S.)
About the author
This "author" is not an individual but a U.S. government research and publishing body: the Consumer and Food Economics Institute, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It is credited on books and bulletins about food composition, home canning, family spending, and consumer guidance, especially in the 1970s and 1980s.
The institute appears on a wide range of USDA publications, including entries in the long-running Composition of Foods handbook series and practical titles such as Home canning of fruits and vegetables, Money-saving main dishes, and Family economics review. Those works reflect its main role: turning federal research into useful information for households, cooks, and community educators.
Because it was an institutional author, the record around it is a little scattered, and related USDA units were renamed over time. Still, the surviving catalog records show a consistent mission—bringing together nutrition research, food data, and consumer economics in a form ordinary readers could use.