Paradox of Plenty : a social history of eating in modern America / Harvey Levenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levenstein, Harvey A., 1938-

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--United States--History--20th century.

Food habits.

Diet--United States--History--20th century.

Diet.

United States--Social life and customs.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

[2], ix, [3], 337, [9] pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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 über Alles

8. The Best-fed People the World Has Ever Seen?

9. Cracks in the Façade: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-322) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0195055438 (alk. paper) :

OCLC:

25131001