Paradox of Plenty

In this sweeping history of food and eating in modern America, Harvey Levenstein explores the social, economic, and political factors that have shaped the American diet since 1930.

List of contents

Prologue: Depression Paradoxes

1. Depression Dieting and the Vitamin Gold Rush
2. The Great Regression: The New Woman Goes Home
3. From Burgoo to Howard Johnson's: Eating Out in Depression America
4. One-third of a Nation Ill Nourished?
5. Oh What a Healthy War: Nutrition for National Defense
6. Food Shortages for the People of Plenty
7. The Golden Age of Food Processing: Miracle Whip uber Alles
8. The Best-fed People the World Has Ever Seen?
9. Cracks in the Facade: 1958-1965
10. The Politics of Hunger
11. Nutritional Terrorism
12. The Politics of Food
13. Natural Foods and Negative Nutrition
14. Darling, Where Did You Put the Cardamom?
15. Fast Foods and Quick Bucks
16. Paradoxes of Plenty

Epilogue
Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Periodicals 2
Notes
Index

About the author

Harvey Levenstein is Professor Emeritus of History at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Among his books are Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet (California, 2003), Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from the Jefferson to the Jazz Age (1998), and Communism, Anticommunism and the CIO (1981).

Summary

A sweeping social history of food and eating in America, exploring the economic, political and cultural factors that have shaped the American diet from 1930 to the present.

Product details

• Authors: Harvey Levenstein, Harvey A. Levenstein
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.2003
• EAN: 9780520234406
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23440-6
• No. of pages: 362
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Series: California Studies in Food & Culture; California Studies in Food and; California Studies in Food and Culture
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; USA, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Diets, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Weight Loss, Diets & dieting, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Diets and dieting, nutrition, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)