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Eating in Eden - Food and American Utopias (Paperback)
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Eating in Eden - Food and American Utopias (Paperback)
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Total price: R775
Discovery Miles: 7 750
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Perennially viewed as both a utopian land of abundant resources and
a fallen nation of consummate consumers, North America has provided
a fertile setting for the development of distinctive foodways
reflecting the diverse visions of life in the United States.
Immigrants, from colonial English Puritans and Spanish Catholics to
mid-twentieth-century European Jews and contemporary Indian Hindus,
have generated innovative foodways in creating "new world"
religious and ethnic identities. The Shakers, the Oneida
Perfectionists, and the Amana Colony, as well as 1970s
counter-cultural groups, developed food practices that
distinguished communal members from outsiders, but they also
marketed their food to nonmembers through festivals, restaurants,
and cookbooks. Other groups--from elite male dining clubs in
Revolutionary America and female college students in the late
1800s, to members of food co-ops; vegetarian Jews and Buddhists;
and "foodies" who watched TV cooking shows--have used food
strategically to promote their ideals of gender, social class,
nonviolence, environmentalism, or taste in the hope of transforming
national or global society. This theoretically informed,
interdisciplinary collection of thirteen essays broadens familiar
definitions of utopianism and community to explore the ways
Americans have produced, consumed, avoided, and marketed food and
food-related products and meanings to further their visionary
ideals.
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