How America Eats - A Social History of U.s. Food and Culture

How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture tells the story of America by examining American eating habits, and illustrates the many ways in which competing cultures, conquests and cuisines have helped form America’s identity, and have helped define what it means to be American.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Cuisine of Contact
Chapter 2: Food and the Founding
Chapter 3: Foodways in an Era of Expansion and Immigration
Chapter 4: Technology and Taste
Chapter 5: Gender and the American Appetite
Chapter 6: The Pious or Patriotic Stomach
Chapter 7: Food Habits and Racial Thinking
Chapter 8: The Politics of Food
A Note on Sources

About the author

Jennifer Jensen Wallach is associate professor of history at the University of North Texas. She is the author, most recently, of How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture and Richard Wright: From Black Boy to World Citizen. She is also the editor of the University of Arkansas Press’ Food and Foodways series.

Summary

How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture tells the story of America by examining American eating habits, and illustrates the many ways in which competing cultures, conquests and cuisines have helped form America’s identity, and have helped define what it means to be American.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Jensen Wallach
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 18 to 22
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2014
• EAN: 9781442232181
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3218-1
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: American Ways Series; American Ways; American Ways
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, American Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Food & society, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Cultural studies: food and society