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Food fights : how history matters to contemporary food debates / edited by Charles C. Ludington and Matthew Morse Booker.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Ludington, Charles, editor.
Booker, Matthew Morse, 1968- editor.
JSTOR (Online Service)
James Samuel Blank Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Food--United States.
Food.
Food--Biotechnology.
Food--Safety measures.
United States.
Genre:
Essays.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (293 pages.)
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Introduction / Charles C. Ludington and Matthew Morse Booker
Producing food. Savior or monster? The truth about genetically engineered agriculture / Margaret Mellon
Born in the U.S.A.: the Americanness of industrial agriculture / Peter A. Coclanis
Food activism: a critical history / Steve Striffler
Choosing food. Can 'taste' be separated from social class? / S. Margot Finn
The standard of taste debate: how do we decide what tastes best? / Charles C. Ludington
What does it mean to eat right? Nutrition, science, and society / Charlotte Biltekoff
Regulating food. Who should be responsible for food safety? Oysters as a case study / Matthew Morse Booker
U.S. farm and food subsidies: a short history of a long controversy / Sarah Ludington
Gendering food. what should babies eat and whose business is it? / Amy Bentley
Home, cooking: why gender matters to food politics / Tracey Deutsch
Cooking and eating food. Is thinking critically about food essential to a good life? / Robert T. Valgenti
A plea for culinary luddism / Ken Albala
A plea for culinary modernism: why we should love fast, modern, processed food (with a new postscript) / Rachel Laudan.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.
ISBN:
9781469652917
1469652919
Publisher Number:
99982531210
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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