For This Question,refer to the Following Excerpt from a Cookbook

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For this question,refer to the following excerpt from a cookbook that won a prize from the American Public Health Association in 1890. For family of six,average price 78 cents per day,or 13 cents per person.
) ..I am going to consider myself as talking to the mother of a family who has six mouths to feed,and no more money than this to do it with.Perhaps this woman has never kept accurate accounts....I have in mind the wife [who has] time to attend to the housework and children.If a woman helps earn,as in a factory,doing most of her housework after she comes home at night,she must certainly have more money than in the first case in order to accomplish the same result....
[Sample spring menu]
Breakfast.Milk Toast.Coffee.
Dinner.Stuffed Beef's Heart.Potatoes stewed with Milk.Dried Apple Pie.Bread and Cheese.Corn Coffee.
Supper.Noodle Soup (from Saturday) .Boiled Herring.Bread.Tea.
Mary Hinman Abel,Promoting Nutrition,1890
The excerpt above was most likely a reaction to

• A) industrial culture in the United States leading to greater opportunities for women.
• B) political machines providing social services in exchange for political support.
• C) the divided social conditions that cities reflected among classes,cultures,and ethnicities.
• D) arguments that the wealthy had some obligation to help the less fortunate.

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