Revolution at the Table

The Transformation of the American Diet

Harvey Levenstein

• Editorial: University of California Press
• Año: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780520342910
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Arte
• Categoría: Artes culinarias

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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2005.
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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University

Índice

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