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How America eats : a social history of U.S. food and culture / Jennifer Jensen Wallach.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974- author.
- Series:
- American ways series.
- The American ways series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food habits--United States.
- Food habits.
- Food preferences--United States.
- Food preferences.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Social life and customs.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How America Eats traces American history through its collective stomach, demonstrating that changing ideas about what it means to be American can be seen through food choices and attitudes about eating.
- Contents:
- The cuisine of contact
- Food and the founding
- Foodways in an era of expansion and immigration
- Technology and taste
- Gender and the American appetite
- The pious or patriotic stomach
- Food habits and racial thinking
- The politics of food.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-40294-7
- 1-4422-0875-9
- 1-299-13905-1
- OCLC:
- 829253243
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