Breadcrumbs and Spoiled Milk

The Milk and Bread Programme, and how Romanian children were left hungry by false promises and neoliberal policies. Words by Radu Stochita. Illustration by Sinjin Li.

Good morning and welcome to Vittles Season 7: Food and Policy. Each essay in this season investigates how policy intersects with eating, cooking, and life. For our twentieth newsletter in this season, Radu Stochita writes about the Milk and Bread Programme in Romania, through which the government has provided a bread roll and a carton of milk to every s…