Edible Ideologies argues that representations of food—in literature and popular fiction, cookbooks and travel guides, war propaganda, women's magazines, television and print advertisements—are not just about nourishment or pleasure. Contributors explore how these various modes of representation, reflecting prevailing attitudes and assumptions about food and food practices, function instead to circulate and transgress dominant cultural ideologies. Addressing questions concerning whose interests are served by a particular food practice or habit and what political ends are fulfilled by the historical changes that lead from one practice to another in Western culture, the essays offer a rich historical narrative that moves from the construction of the nineteenth-century English gentleman to the creation of two of today's iconic figures in food culture, Julia Child and Martha Stewart. Along the way, readers will encounter World War I propaganda, holocaust and Sephardic cookbooks, the Rosenbergs, German tour guides, fast food advertising, food packaging, and chocolate, and will find food for thought on the meanings of everything from camembert to Velveeta, from salads to burgers, and from tikka masala to Campbell's soup.

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Information

Publisher

SUNY Press

Year

2012

ISBN

9780791479117

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Popular Culture

Index

Social Sciences

Edible Ideologies
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. Men and Menus
CHAPTER 2. “Food Will Win the War”
CHAPTER 3. Cooking In Memory’s Kitchen
CHAPTER 4. “More Than One Million Mothers Know It’s the REAL Thing”
CHAPTER 5. Cooking the Books
CHAPTER 6. Typisch Deutsch
CHAPTER 7. The Embodied Rhetoric of “Health”from Farm Fields to Salad Bowls
CHAPTER 8. Consuming the Other
CHAPTER 9. From Romance to PMS
CHAPTER 10. Julia Child, Martha Stewart, and theRise of Culinary Capital
Contributors
Index