In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930.
In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930.
In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930.
In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930.
In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930.
In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930.
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Price: $34.95
Pages: 314
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Publication Date: 15th November 2023
ISBN: 9780520342910
Format: eBook
BISACs: COOKING / History
Author Bio
Harvey Levenstein is Professor Emeritus of History at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Among his books are Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America, Revised Edition (California, 2003), Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from the Jefferson to the Jazz Age (1998), and Communism, Anticommunism and the CIO (1981).
Table of Contents
Introduction: The British-American Culinary Heritage
1. The American Table in 1880: The Tastes of the Upper Crust 2. How the Other Half Ate 3. The Rise of the Giant Food Processors 4. The New England Kitchen and the Failure to Reform Working-Class Eating Habits 44 5. The "Servant Problem" and Middle-Class Cookery 60 6. The New Nutritionists Assault the Middle Classes 72 7. Scientists, Pseudoscientists, and Faddists 86 8. New Reformers and New Immigrants 98 9. The Great Malnutrition Scare, 1907-1921 109 10. "Best for Babies" or "Preventable Infanticide"?: The Controversy Over Artificial Feeding of Infants, 1880-1930 11. "Food Will Win the War" 12. The Newer Nutrition, 1915-1930 13. A Revolution of Declining Expectations 14. Workers and Farmers During the "Prosperity Decade" 15. The Old (Restaurant) Order Changeth 16. Too Rich and Too Thin?
In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930.
In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 314
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Publication Date: 15th November 2023
ISBN: 9780520342910
Format: eBook
BISACs: COOKING / History
Harvey Levenstein is Professor Emeritus of History at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Among his books are Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America, Revised Edition (California, 2003), Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from the Jefferson to the Jazz Age (1998), and Communism, Anticommunism and the CIO (1981).
Introduction: The British-American Culinary Heritage
1. The American Table in 1880: The Tastes of the Upper Crust 2. How the Other Half Ate 3. The Rise of the Giant Food Processors 4. The New England Kitchen and the Failure to Reform Working-Class Eating Habits 44 5. The "Servant Problem" and Middle-Class Cookery 60 6. The New Nutritionists Assault the Middle Classes 72 7. Scientists, Pseudoscientists, and Faddists 86 8. New Reformers and New Immigrants 98 9. The Great Malnutrition Scare, 1907-1921 109 10. "Best for Babies" or "Preventable Infanticide"?: The Controversy Over Artificial Feeding of Infants, 1880-1930 11. "Food Will Win the War" 12. The Newer Nutrition, 1915-1930 13. A Revolution of Declining Expectations 14. Workers and Farmers During the "Prosperity Decade" 15. The Old (Restaurant) Order Changeth 16. Too Rich and Too Thin?
