California Studies in Food and Culture
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California Studies in Food and Culture

The Transformation of the American Diet

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California Studies in Food and Culture

The Transformation of the American Diet

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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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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780520342910
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Culinary Arts

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. INTRODUCTION The British-American Culinary Heritage
  6. CHAPTER 1 The American Table in 1880: The Tastes of the Upper Crust
  7. CHAPTER 2 How the Other Half Ate
  8. CHAPTER 3 The Rise of the Giant Food Processors
  9. CHAPTER 4 The New England Kitchen and the Failure to Reform Working-Class Eating Habits
  10. CHAPTER 5 The “Servant Problem” and Middle-Class Cookery
  11. CHAPTER 6 The New Nutritionists Assault the Middle Classes
  12. CHAPTER 7 Scientists, Pseudoscientists, and Faddists
  13. CHAPTER 8 New Reformers and New Immigrants
  14. CHAPTER 9 The Great Malnutrition Scare, 1907—1921
  15. CHAPTER 10 "Best for Babies” or "Preventable Infanticide”?: The Controversy Over Artificial Feeding of Infants, 1880—1930
  16. CHAPTER 11 “Food Will Win the War”
  17. CHAPTER 12 The Newer Nutrition, 1915—1930
  18. CHAPTER 13 A Revolution of Declining Expectations
  19. CHAPTER 14 Workers and Farmers During the “Prosperity Decade”
  20. CHAPTER 15 The Old (Restaurant) Order Changeth
  21. CHAPTER 16 Too Rich and Too Thin?
  22. Notes
  23. Index