How America Eats: A Social History of U. S. Food and Culture tells the story of America by examining American eating habits, and illustrates the many ways in which competing cultures, conquests and cuisines have helped form America's identity, and have helped define what it means to be American.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Cuisine of Contact
Chapter 2: Food and the Founding
Chapter 3: Foodways in an Era of Expansion and Immigration
Chapter 4: Technology and Taste
Chapter 5: Gender and the American Appetite
Chapter 6: The Pious or Patriotic Stomach
Chapter 7: Food Habits and Racial Thinking
Chapter 8: The Politics of Food
A Note on Sources