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Food in the USA Reader

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ISBN-10: 0415932327

ISBN-13: 9780415932325

Edition: 2002

Authors: Carole Counihan

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From Thanksgiving to fast food to anorexia nervosa, this is a wide-ranging collection of essays on food and culture in the United States.
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Book details

List price: $73.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 444
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.178
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Food and the Nation
Introduction: Food and the Nation
The Taste of Y2K
Eating American
What Do We Eat?
The Invention of Thanksgiving: a Ritual of American Nationality
Future Notes: The Meal-in-a-Pill
Making U.S. Food
The American Response to Italian Food, 1880-1930
The Origins of Soul Food in Black Urban Identity: Chicago, 1915-1947
The Nutritional Impacts of European Contact on the Omaha: A Continuing Legacy
Consumer Culture and Participatory Democracy: The Story of Coca Cola during World War II
"Farm Boys Don't Believe in Radicals": Rural Time and Meatpacking Workers
The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the United States
Complexities of Consumption
Islands of Serenity: Gender, Race, and Ordered Meals during World War II
The Passover Seder: Ritual Dynamics, Foodways, and Family Folklore
Continuity and Change in Symptom Choice: Anorexia
'A Way Outa No Way': Eating Problems among African-American
Diabetes, Diet, and Native American Foraging Traditions
The Contemporary Soup Kitchen
Food Signifying Identities
The Signifying Dish: Autobiography and History in Two Black Women's Cookbooks
'To Eat the Flesh of His Dead Mother': Hunger, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Frank Chin's Donald Duk
'We Got Our Way of Cooking Things': Women, Food, and Preservation of Cultural Identity among the Gullah
Food as Women's Voice in the San Luis Valley of Colorado
Food, Masculinity and Place in the Hispanic Southwest
"Who Deserves a Break Today?": Fast Food, Cultural Rituals, and Women's Place
Food and the Emerging World25. The International Political Economy of Food: A Global Crisis
China's Big Mac Attack
NAFTA and Basic Food Production: Dependency and Marginalization on Both Sides of the US/Mexico Border
New Agricultural Biotechnologies: The Struggle for Democratic Choice
Hunger in the United States: Policy Implications
Growing Food, Growing Community: Community Supported Agriculture in Rural Iowa