by Harvey Levenstein From the publisher: In this sweeping history of food and eating in modern America, Harvey Levenstein explores the social, economic, and political factors that have shaped the […]
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How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century
by Katherine Leonard Turner From the publisher: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neighborhoods, and the tools, […]
How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture
by Jennifer Jensen Wallach From the publisher: In How America Eats, Food historian Jennifer Wallach examines how Americans have produced food, cooked, and filled their stomachs from the colonial era […]
Food in the Gilded Age: What Ordinary Americans Ate
by Robert Dirks From the publisher: The Gilded Age is renowned for a variety of reasons, including its culture of conspicuous consumption among the newly rich. In the domain of food, […]