SPAM

A Global History

AvKelly A. Spring

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a conflict that solidified SPAM’s place in global food culture. Created by Hormel Foods in 1937 to utilize surplus pork shoulder during the Great Depression, SPAM became an essential resource during the Second World War, and helped shape perceptions of American culture. This book explores SPAM’s complex history, from its inception to its resurgence during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting its enduring legacy in places like Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa and South Korea. It demonstrates how SPAM, a long-lasting and valuable protein, played a crucial role during wartime and continues to influence dietary practices worldwide.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-01
Mått:200 x 17 x 125 mm
Vikt:375 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edible
Antal sidor:152
Förlag:Reaktion Books
ISBN:9781836390664

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Kelly A. Spring, owner of The Fork Front and convenor of the IHR Food History Seminar, is a food history researcher. Her work examines the history of global food systems.

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"Kelly A. Spring skilfully chronicles the story of this humble industrial food product, which has delivered crucial sustenance to struggling peoples across the globe and embodies aspects of American culture writ large. This volume, complete with striking visuals and recipes, also reminds us that SPAM is funny and has long tickled our global funny bone." - Amy Bentley, Professor of Food Studies, New York University, and author of Inventing Baby Food"This is an engagingly written but professionally conducted historical study of SPAM’s extensive socio-cultural significance: a protein source of last resort in hard times; an extraordinarily successful instance of industrialised, long-shelf-lived foodstuff that helped extend the reach of American ‘soft’ power worldwide, and, most strikingly, by the 2000s in South Korea, a prime feature of gift sets marking special festivals." - Anne Murcott, Honorary Professorial Research Associate, Food Studies Centre, SOAS, and author of The (Not So) Secret Lives of Food Packaging

Innehållsförteckning

ForewordIntroduction1 SPAM to the Rescue: The Business and Politics of Processed Food2 SPAM and the March to War3 SPAM on the British Home Front4 SPAM in the Pacific5 SPAM and the Korean War6 SPAM’s Longevity and Enduring Appeal7 SPAMtown, USARecipesReferencesSelect BibliographyWebsites and AssociationsAcknowledgementsPhoto AcknowledgementsIndex