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Book SynopsisTrade Review "Finn's compelling argument about the role of class in today's food culture is sure to have a major impact on how both scholars and foodies think about the food revolution." -- Charlotte Biltekoff * author of Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health *
"Finn offers an engaging and compelling explanation for the rise of the modern food movement. It's one that the leaders of the movement will no doubt find unsettling." -- Jayson Lusk * author of Unnaturally Delicious and The Food Police *
"New Books Network - New Books in Sociology" interview with S. Margot Finn * New Books Network *
“'Good taste' is all about class anxiety" by Rachel Sugar
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/9/26/20873938/good-taste-class-anxiety-s-margot-finn * Vox *
"Finn's compelling argument about the role of class in today's food culture is sure to have a major impact on how both scholars and foodies think about the food revolution." -- Charlotte Biltekoff * author of Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health *
"Finn offers an engaging and compelling explanation for the rise of the modern food movement. It's one that the leaders of the movement will no doubt find unsettling." -- Jayson Lusk * author of Unnaturally Delicious and The Food Police *
"New Books Network - New Books in Sociology" interview with S. Margot Finn * New Books Network *
“'Good taste' is all about class anxiety" by Rachel Sugar
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/9/26/20873938/good-taste-class-anxiety-s-margot-finn * Vox *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Discriminating Taste
1 Incompatible Standards: The Four Ideals of the Food Revolution
2 Aspirational Eating: Food and Status Anxiety in the Gilded Age
3 No Culinary Enlightenment: Why Everything You Know about Food Is Wrong
4 Anyone Can Cook: Saying Yes to Meritocracy
5 Just Mustard: Negotiating with Food Snobbery
6 Feeling Good about Where You Shop: Sacrifice, Pleasure, and Virtue
Conclusion: Confronting the Soft Bigotry of Taste
Notes
Index
