by Bee Wilson From the publisher: Food is one of life’s great joys. So why has eating become such a source of anxiety and confusion?Bee Wilson shows that in two […]
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Modern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century
by Helen Zoe Veit From the publisher: American eating changed dramatically in the early twentieth century. As food production became more industrialized, nutritionists, home economists, and so-called racial scientists were […]
Inside the California Food Revolution: Thirty Years That Changed Our Culinary Consciousness
by Joyce Goldstein From the publisher: In this authoritative and immensely readable insider’s account, celebrated cookbook author and former chef Joyce Goldstein traces the development of California cuisine from its formative […]
Building Nature’s Markets: The Business and Politics of Natural Foods
by Laura J. Miller From the publisher: For the first 150 years of their existence, “natural foods” were consumed primarily by body builders, hippies, religious sects, and believers in nature […]
Food in the United States, 1890-1945
by Megan J. Elias From the publisher: No American history or food collection is complete without this lively insight into the radical changes in daily life from the Gilded Age to […]
Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal
by Abigail Carroll From the publisher: We are what we eat, as the saying goes—but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much […]
Appetite for Change: a history of the counterculture revolution in food
by Warren James Belasco From the publisher: In this engaging inquiry, originally published in 1989 and now fully updated for the twenty-first century, Warren J. Belasco considers the rise of the […]