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How America Eats
A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture
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2012
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In How America Eats, Food historian Jennifer Wallach examines how Americans have produced food, cooked, and filled their stomachs from the colonial era to the present. Due to the complex history of conquest, enslavement, and immigration, the United States has never developed a singular cohesive culinary tradition. U.S. food practices have been shaped by the various groups that have called a certain geographical space home. However, more than fusion and friction between different racial and ethnic groups went into creating American foodways. Wallach demonstrates that technological innovations and ideas about industrialism and progress have also impacted what and how Americans eat. Moreover, the American diet is the product of more amorphous factors, the outgrowth of both shared and competing values. The history of food in America reveals changing and contradictory ideas about subjects including nationality, race, technological innovation, gender, politics, religion, and patriotism.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-0874-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-0875-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
242
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 The Cuisine of Contact No access Pages 1 - 32
2 Food and the Founding No access Pages 33 - 56
3 Foodways in an Era of Expansion and Immigration No access Pages 57 - 88
4 Technology and Taste No access Pages 89 - 110
5 Gender and the American Appetite No access Pages 111 - 142
6 The Pious or Patriotic Stomach No access Pages 143 - 168
7 Food Habits and Racial Thinking No access Pages 169 - 194
8 The Politics of Food No access Pages 195 - 210
