Designed to appeal to students of history and foodies alike, American Appetites, the first book in the University of Arkansas Press's new Food and Foodways series, brings together compelling firsthand testimony describing the nation's collective eating habits throughout time. Beginning with Native American folktales that document foundational food habits and ending with contemporary discussions about how to obtain adequate, healthful, and ethical food, this volume reveals that the quest for food has always been about more than physical nourishment, demonstrating changing attitudes about issues ranging from patriotism and gender to technology and race. Readers will experience vicariously hunger and satiation, culinary pleasure and gustatory distress from perspectives as varied as those of enslaved Africans, nineteenth-century socialites, battle-weary soldiers, impoverished immigrants, and prominent politicians. Regardless of their status or the peculiarities of their historical moment, the Americans whose stories are captured here reveal that U.S. history cannot be understood apart from an examination of what drives and what feeds the American appetite.

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Information

Publisher

University of Arkansas Press

Year

2014

ISBN

9781610755504

Topic

History

Subtopic

World History

Index

History

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 - Foundational Food
2 - Colonial Culinary Encounters
3 - Developing a National Cuisine
4 - Nineteenth-Century Expansion
5 - Foodways during Enslavement and War
6 - Eating in an Age of Decadence and Empire
7 - Food and Social Reform in the Progressive Era
8 - From Prohibition to the Great Depression
9 - Wartime Food and Postwar Consumption
10 - Politics, Protest, and Food
11 - Contemporary Food Issues
For Further Reading
Index