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.
Harvey Levenstein is Professor Emeritus of History at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Among his books are Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America, Revised Edition (California, 2003), Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from the Jefferson to the Jazz Age (1998), and Communism, Anticommunism and the CIO (1981).
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Introduction: The British-American Culinary Heritage1. The American Table in 1880:The Tastes of the Upper Crust2. How the Other Half Ate3. The Rise of the Giant Food Processors4. The New England Kitchen and the Failureto Reform Working-Class Eating Habits 445. The "Servant Problem" and Middle-Class Cookery 606. The New Nutritionists Assault the Middle Classes 727. Scientists, Pseudoscientists, and Faddists 868. New Reformers and New Immigrants 989. The Great Malnutrition Scare, 1907-1921 10910. "Best for Babies" or "Preventable Infanticide"?:The Controversy Over Artificial Feeding of Infants,1880-193011. "Food Will Win the War"12. The Newer Nutrition, 1915-193013. A Revolution of Declining Expectations14. Workers and Farmers During the "Prosperity Decade"15. The Old (Restaurant) Order Changeth16. Too Rich and Too Thin?NotesIndex
