Guides students through a rich menu of American history through
food and eating This book features a wide and diverse range of
primary sources covering the cultivation, preparation, marketing,
and consumption of food from the time before Europeans arrived in
North America to the present-day United States. It is organized
around what the authors label the "Four P's"--production, politics,
price, and preference--in order to show readers that food
represents something more than nutrition and the daily meals that
keep us alive. The documents in this book demonstrate that food we
eat is a "highly condensed social fact" that both reflects and is
shaped by politics, economics, culture, religion, region, race,
class, and gender. Food and Eating in America covers more than 500
years of American food and eating history with sections on: An
Appetizer: What Food and Eating Tell Us About America; Hunting,
Harvesting, Starving, and the Occasional Feast: Food in Early
America; Fields and Foods in the Nineteenth Century; Feeding a
Modern World: Revolutions in Farming, Food, and Famine; and
Counterculture Cuisines and Culinary Tourism. Presents primary
sources from a wide variety of perspectives--Native Americans,
explorers, public officials, generals, soldiers, slaves,
slaveholders, clergy, businessmen, workers, immigrants, activists,
African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, artists, writers,
investigative reporters, judges, the owners of food trucks, and
prison inmates Illustrates the importance of eating and food
through speeches, letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper and magazine
articles, illustrations, photographs, song lyrics, advertisements,
legislative statutes, court rulings, interviews, manifestoes,
government reports, and recipes Offers a new way of exploring how
people lived in the past by looking closely and imaginatively at
food Food and Eating in America: A Documentary Reader is an ideal
book for students of United States history, food, and the social
sciences. It will also appeal to foodies and those with a curiosity
for documentary-style books of all kinds.
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