Acquired tastes stories about the origins of modern food / edited by Benjamin R. Cohen, Michael S. Kideckel, and Anna Zeide.
| Other author | Cohen, Benjamin R. |
| Other author | Kideckel, Michael S. |
| Other author | Zeide, Anna, 1984- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021] |
| Description | vii, 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs |
| Subjects |
| Series | Food, health, and the environment |
| Partial contents | I.Time and space -- Modern food as ghost acres : Tulare Lake and the past future of food / Thomas D. Finger -- Modern food as status : a biography of modern British bread / David Fouser -- Modern food as colonized food : Old is bad, new is American : Philippine food consumption and production during American empire in the early 1900s / Renâe Alexander D. Orquiza Jr. -- Modern food as globalized food : does your beer have style? the nineteenth-century invention of European beer styles / Jeffrey M. Pilcher -- Modern food as distributed food : The thin ripe line : watermelons, pushcarts, distribution, and decay / William Thomas Okie -- II. Trust -- Modern food as suspicious : gilded sugar and corn syrup's long con / Benjamin R. Cohen -- Modern food as mass-consumed food : the search for the average consumer : breakfast cereal and the industrialization of the American food supply / Michael S. Kideckel -- Modern food as uprising : eat the rich : radical food justice in Memphis and Chicago / Faron Levesque -- Modern food as racialized performance : blackness and bananas : the Josephine Baker effect / Tashima Thomas -- Modern food as endorsed food : Marion Harland, tastemaker : how one woman's influence helped build an industry / Anna Zeide -- III. Science -- Modern food as ranked food : who's afraid of the dark sugar? / David Singerman -- Modern food as extracted nutrition : Darby's fluid meat, digestion, and the British imperial food supply / Lisa Haushofer -- Modern food as substitute food : Ella Eaton Kellogg's protose : fake meat and the gender politics that made American vegetarianism modern / Adam Shprintzen --Modern food is not your pet : Marietta's lamb / Amrys O. Williams. 520 $a "The stories in this collection open a window onto those new categories in the making. Taken together, they call for new approaches to the history of global food, and using this history to think about our future"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract | "The stories in this collection open a window onto those new categories in the making. Taken together, they call for new approaches to the history of global food, and using this history to think about our future"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020049512 |
| ISBN | 9780262542913 (paperback) |
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