HERITAGE OF SCIENCE IN BRITAIN

By N. DARAO

CONTENTS SETTING THE TABLE: DEBATES ON THE NEW SCIENCE OF NUTRITION GATHERING INGREDIENTS: COLLECTING DATA ON NUTRITION IN BRITAIN AND BRITISH AFRICA THE INTERWAR CONTEXT OF NUTRITION SCIENCE THE DOMESTIC PROBLEM OF NUTRITION IN BRITAIN THE TRANSNATIONAL PROBLEM OF NUTRITION THE BRITISH SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES RESPONDS CONCLUSION PICKY EATERS: POLICYMAKERS TURN TO EDUCATION TO SOLVE MALNUTRITION THE COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION IN THE COLONIAL EMPIRE THE BLACKLOCK REPORT THE ESDAILE MEMO THE DOMESTIC SCIENCE SURVEY NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S COOKING: DOMESTIC SCIENCE IN BRITAIN AND BRITISH AFRICA VICTORIAN ROOTS VICTORIAN DOMESTIC SCIENCE BACKGROUND IN BRITAIN AND AFRICA THE SCHOOLS: BERRIDGE HOUSE AND QUEEN’S COLLEGE CONTENTS FUSION COOKING: NUTRITION EDUCATION IN BRITAIN AND BRITISH AFRICA MATERIAL REALITIES OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE FACILITIES IN LONDON AND LAGOS DEGREES AND COURSES IN BRITAIN AND NIGERIA EXAMS IN BRITAIN AND NIGERIA EXPERIMENTING WITH THE RECIPE: NUTRITION EDUCATION PEDAGOGIES THE WHITE WOMAN’S BURDEN CIVILIZING REVOLUTION WITHOUT COLONIAL REVOLT MORALITY AND AFRICAN EDUCATION A SEAT AT THE TABLE: NIGERIAN WOMEN SHAPE THE CURRICULUM PRACTICAL VERSUS TRADITIONAL EDUCATION NIGERIANS CREATE THE KIND OF CLASSROOM THEY WANT THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING: INDIGENOUS FARMING POINTS THE WAY FORWARD IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH LONG-TERM AFTERMATH THE BIGGER PICTURE CHAPTER GEORGE ORWELL’S 1937 THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER CAPTURED THE FRAUGHT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INCOME AND FOOD IN INTERWAR BRITAIN, A TIME WHEN MALNUTRITION BECAME A CENTRAL CONCERN OF THE BRITISH STATE EXPANSIVE STUDIES BACKED UP WHAT ORWELL IMPLIED: POORER BRITONS HAD POORER NUTRI- TION THE IMPACT OF AVAILABILITY AND AFFORDABILITY OF FOOD ON NUTRITION IN BOTH BRITAIN AND THE EMPIRE REMAINED A SOURCE OF DEBATE THROUGHOUT THE INTERWAR PERIOD IGNORANCE OF GOOD NUTRITION, HOWEVER, REMAINED A QUICKER AND EASIER PROBLEM TO TACKLE WOMEN GARNERED PARTICULAR ATTEN- TION FROM THE STATE AND NUTRITION EXPERTS, AS THEY WERE THE ONES ASSUMED TO BE FEEDING THEIR FAMILIES, WERE MOST LIKELY TO SACRI?CE THEIR OWN NUTRI- TION FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR FAMILIES’ AND WERE THE ONES WHO POSSESSED SPECIAL NUTRITIONAL NEEDS DURING PREGNANCY WITH THESE CONSIDERATIONS IN 1 GEORGE ORWELL, THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER (LONDON: VICTOR GOLLANCZ LTD , 1937) POPULATION,” PRIME MINISTER LLOYD GEORGE INTONED IN A STIRRING