Paradox of plenty : a social history of eating in modern America
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Paradox of plenty : a social history of eating in modern America
（California studies in food and culture, 8）
University of California Press, 2003
Rev. ed
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"Originally published in 1993 by Oxford University Press"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-338) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this sweeping history of food and eating in modern America, Harvey Levenstein explores the social, economic, and political factors that have shaped the American diet since 1930.
Table of Contents
Prologue: Depression Paradoxes
1. Depression Dieting and the Vitamin Gold Rush
2. The Great Regression: The New Woman Goes Home
3. From Burgoo to Howard Johnson's: Eating Out in Depression America
4. One-third of a Nation Ill Nourished?
5. Oh What a Healthy War: Nutrition for National Defense
6. Food Shortages for the People of Plenty
7. The Golden Age of Food Processing: Miracle Whip uber Alles
8. The Best-fed People the World Has Ever Seen?
9. Cracks in the Facade: 1958-1965
10. The Politics of Hunger
11. Nutritional Terrorism
12. The Politics of Food
13. Natural Foods and Negative Nutrition
14. Darling, Where Did You Put the Cardamom?
15. Fast Foods and Quick Bucks
16. Paradoxes of Plenty
Epilogue
Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Periodicals 2
Notes
Index
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