December 9, 2022

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Cost (in U.S. cents) of a school lunch in the 1930s, according to School Lunches in America: A Brief History. On the menu back then: bread and butter sandwiches (the country was in the midst of the Depression). The average cost of a school lunch today: $3. The U.S. school lunch program is now a $10 billion a year business.

The Exciting “Taste of Oakville”

It is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough, we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid that evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth’s rocks, and in its composition, we see the secrets of the universe’s age, and the evolution of stars.

— Richard Feynman (1918-1988) American theoretical physicist; winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965

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