Folkhem and Institutional Food

Modern

Free school meals for every pupil since 1946, one of very few countries to do it universally; the workplace canteen and the lunch voucher; the Hemmets Forskningsinstitut and the standardisation of the Swedish kitchen in the 1940s and 50s, which fixed counter heights and cupboard dimensions nationally; the cooperative grocery; and the frozen-food and industrial turn of the postwar decades.