How America eats : a social history of U.S. food and culture

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Label

How America eats : a social history of U.S. food and culture

Title remainder

a social history of U.S. food and culture

Statement of responsibility

Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Creator

• Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-

Author

• Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-

Subject

• Food habits -- United States
• Food preferences -- United States
• United States -- Social life and customs

Language

eng

Summary

Sheds a new light on American history by way of the dinner table. It is, at once, a study of America's diverse culinary history and a look at the country's unique and unprecedented journey to the present day. While undeniably a "melting pot" of different cultures and cuisines, America's food habits have been shaped as much by technological innovations and industrial progress as by the intermingling and mixture of ethnic cultures. By studying what Americans have been eating since the colonial era, we are further enlightened to the conflicting ways in which Americans have chosen to define themselves, their culture, their beliefs, and the changes those definitions have undergone over time

Member of

• American ways series

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

394.1/2

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

GT2853.U5

LC item number

W35 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The American ways series