This original collection abandons culinary nostalgia and the cataloguing of regional cuisines to examine the role of food and food marketing in constructing culture, consumer behavior, and national identity.
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Food Nations is a book I can't wait to teach. The individual articles capture the centrality and complexity of the relationships between food, nationhood, markets, and the manipulation of cultural meaning within modernity. -- Judith Goode, Temple University
Food keeps scholars honest: clarity is right there on the palate, the plate, and the factory line, and nothing can illustrate better the power of identity, class, and the marketing of nationality better than a pickle, an avocado, a donut, or a tortilla. Food Nations treats foods as keys to personal, familial, community, and national identity. Reading the volume's elegant essays makes me hungry for more. -- Merry Issacs White, author of The Material Child
Until recently, American consumers have limited their concerns about food to additives and pesticides. But to be truly responsible and healthy consumers, they also need to know something about food business, politics, science, history, aesthetics, and traditions. -- Nancy Ralph, Director, New York Food Museum
Food studies is serious business and Food Nations is a major contribution to our understanding of the business of food. This meticulously researched book is a most welcome addition to an exciting new field. -- Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, author of Destination Culture
That food and drink are at the very center of the body politic is dramatically enforced in the revelatory collection of essays, unified by the proposition that food is power and power, food. If anyone can doubt that food is as serious a subject as politics or business, let him read any one of these essays and stay amazed. -- Betty Fussell, author of My Kitchen Wars
Food Nations is a cornucopia of fascinating information about why we eat what we eat. There is much in this wide-ranging book to stimulate anyone with an interest in the past, the present, and even the future of food. -- Harvey Levenstein, author of Revolution at the Table
Food Nations joins a growing body of scholarship that proves emphatically that food matters. . . .Food Nations should take a respected place in a sophisticated and complex literature about food, identity, society, and power. -- Hasia R. Diner, New York University, author of Hungering for America
If anyone can doubt that food is as serious a subject as politics or business, let him read any one of these essays and stand amazed. -- Betty Fussell, author The Story of Corn and My Kitchen Wars
Food keeps scholars honest: clarity is right there on the palate, the plate, and the factory line, and nothing can illustrate better the power of identity, class, and the marketing of nationality better than a pickle, an avocado, a donut, or a tortilla. Food Nations treats foods as keys to personal, familial, community, and national identity. Reading the volume's elegant essays makes me hungry for more. -- Merry Issacs White, author of The Material Child
Until recently, American consumers have limited their concerns about food to additives and pesticides. But to be truly responsible and healthy consumers, they also need to know something about food business, politics, science, history, aesthetics, and traditions. -- Nancy Ralph, Director, New York Food Museum
Food studies is serious business and Food Nations is a major contribution to our understanding of the business of food. This meticulously researched book is a most welcome addition to an exciting new field. -- Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, author of Destination Culture
That food and drink are at the very center of the body politic is dramatically enforced in the revelatory collection of essays, unified by the proposition that food is power and power, food. If anyone can doubt that food is as serious a subject as politics or business, let him read any one of these essays and stay amazed. -- Betty Fussell, author of My Kitchen Wars
Food Nations is a cornucopia of fascinating information about why we eat what we eat. There is much in this wide-ranging book to stimulate anyone with an interest in the past, the present, and even the future of food. -- Harvey Levenstein, author of Revolution at the Table
Food Nations joins a growing body of scholarship that proves emphatically that food matters. . . .Food Nations should take a respected place in a sophisticated and complex literature about food, identity, society, and power. -- Hasia R. Diner, New York University, author of Hungering for America
If anyone can doubt that food is as serious a subject as politics or business, let him read any one of these essays and stand amazed. -- Betty Fussell, author The Story of Corn and My Kitchen Wars
About the Author
Warren Belasco is Professor of American Studies at University of Maryland and one of the leading scholars in food studies. He is the author of Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry.
Philip Scranton is the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University and research director at the Hagley Museum and Library. He is the author or editor of six books, including Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization.
Philip Scranton is the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University and research director at the Hagley Museum and Library. He is the author or editor of six books, including Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization.
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Food is important There is in fact nothing more basic. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
donut lore, donut capital, avocado acreage, donut folklore, transnational consumer societies, avocado industry, conserve alimentaire, donut business, des conserves, donut chains, public cafeterias, avocado growers, strained vegetables, mass retailing, donut stores, culinary practices, public dining, food practices, national cuisine, rationing policies, rationing programs, infant feeding practices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Los Angeles, World War, Tim Hortons, California Avocado Society, Mexico City, Progressive Grocer, African American, Soviet Russia, Harvard University Press, Vidal de la Blache, August Aschingers, Berkeley University of California Press, Belize City, Cornell University, San Diego, Wilson Popenoe, Adolphus Busch, Piggly Wiggly, University of Chicago, Warren Belasco, Belle Epoque, Chain Store Age, Country Style New!
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Food is important There is in fact nothing more basic. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
donut lore, donut capital, avocado acreage, donut folklore, transnational consumer societies, avocado industry, conserve alimentaire, donut business, des conserves, donut chains, public cafeterias, avocado growers, strained vegetables, mass retailing, donut stores, culinary practices, public dining, food practices, national cuisine, rationing policies, rationing programs, infant feeding practices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Los Angeles, World War, Tim Hortons, California Avocado Society, Mexico City, Progressive Grocer, African American, Soviet Russia, Harvard University Press, Vidal de la Blache, August Aschingers, Berkeley University of California Press, Belize City, Cornell University, San Diego, Wilson Popenoe, Adolphus Busch, Piggly Wiggly, University of Chicago, Warren Belasco, Belle Epoque, Chain Store Age, Country Style New!
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- The African Americans by Charles M. Collins on page 166, page 172, and page 190
- RL E: Anthropology and Ethnography: Primitive Polynesian Economy (Routledge Library Editions) by Raymond Firth on page 24, and page 32
- Divisions on a Ground: Essays on Canadian Culture by Northrop Frye on page 64, and page 65
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- The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating: A Reader (Blackwell Readers in Anthropology) by James L. Watson on 5 pages
- The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating (Blackwell Readers in Anthroplogy, No. 8) by James L. Watson on 5 pages
- Voices in the Kitchen: Views of Food and the World from Working-Class Mexican and Mexican American Women (Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions) by Meredith E. Abarca in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History (Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture) by Susan Schrepfer in Front Matter, and page 258
- The Technological Fix: How People Use Technology to Create and Solve Problems (Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture) by Lisa Rosner in Front Matter, and page 131
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