{"product_id":"food-and-eating-in-america-9781118936399","title":"Food and Eating in America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuides students through a rich menu of American history through food and eating\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book features a wide and diverse range of primary sources covering the cultivation, preparation, marketing, and consumption of food from the time before Europeans arrived in North America to the present-day United States. It is organized around what the authors label the Four P'sproduction, politics, price, and preferencein order to show readers that food represents something more than nutrition and the daily meals that keep us alive. The documents in this book demonstrate that food we eat is a highly condensed social fact that both reflects and is shaped by politics, economics, culture, religion, region, race, class, and gender.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFood and Eating in America\u003c\/i\u003e covers more than 500 years of American food and eating history with sections on: An Appetizer: What Food and Eating Tell Us About America; Hunting, Harvesting, Starving, and the Occasional Feast: Food in Early America; \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: An Appetizer: What Food and Eating Tell Us About America 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Hunting, Harvesting, Starving, and the Occasional Feast: Food in Early America 9\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1 Food in the New World: Pre]Columbian Era through the American Revolution 11\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 1.1: The Cherokee Creation Story, “How the World Was Made, Wahnenauhi Version” 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 1.2: John Smith’s History of the Starving Times at Jamestown Colony (1609) 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 1.3: English Artist John White’s drawings of Native Americans fishing, cooking, and preparing corn (1580s) 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 1.4: Edward Winslow on the “First” Thanksgiving, 1621 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 1.5: A Micmac Perspective on Europeans’ Way of Life, near Quebec (c. 1677) 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 1.6: John Winthrop, Jr., Report to the Royal Society of London on Indian Corn (1662) 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 1.7: Observations on American Vegetables Versus English Vegetables, from John Josselyn, New]England’s Rarities Discovered (1672), and Francis Higginson, New]England’s Plantation (1630) 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 1.8: A Soldier’s Perspective on the Revolutionary War, Selections from the Memoir of Private Joseph Plumb Martin (1777) 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 1.9: A General’s Perspective: A Letter from General Horatio Gates to Major General Caswell (August 3, 1780) 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 1.10: Selections from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791) on Communal Eating and Vegetarianism 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2 Food, Foodways, and Conflict in the Early Republic 34\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 2.1: Amelia Simmons, American Cookery (1796), “Preface,” and Selected Recipes 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 2.2: The Preface, Introduction, and Assorted Recipes from Mary Randolph, The Virginia House]Wife (1824) 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 2.3: Unidentified artist, Benjamin Hawkins and the Creek Indians (Painting, c. 1805) 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 2.4: John Lewis Krimmel, The Quilting Frolic (Painting, 1813) 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 2.5: Excerpt from Joseph Doddridge, Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia (1824), Chapter 5, “Beasts and Birds” 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 2.6: Selections from English Phrenologist George Combe, Notes on the United States During a Phrenological Visit in 1838–9–40, vol. II. (1841) 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 2.7: A Variation of the Lyrics of “Home Sweet Home,” a Popular Song of the Early Republic (c. 1830) 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Fields and Foods in the Nineteenth Century 49\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3 Slavery and Food in the Old South 51\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 3.1: Selections from Frederick Douglass, Memoirs on Food and Slavery (1845) 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 3.2: Excerpts from Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) on Slaves’ Weekly Rations, Punishments for Slaves’ Stealing Food from Master, and Slave Taste Testers for Master 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 3.3: Images of the Antebellum South 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 3.4: Excerpts from Daniel R. A. C. Hundley, Social Relations in Our Southern States (1860) 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 3.5: Selections from Planter James Battle Avirett, The Old Plantation: How We Lived in Great House and Cabin Before the War (1901) 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 3.6: Excerpts from William H. Robinson, From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, or Fifteen Years in Slavery (1913) 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 3.7: Excerpts from Allen Parker, Recollections of Slavery Times (1895) 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4 Agriculture and Food in the Age of Reform 70\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 4.1: Advice on Farm Management, from The New England Farmer and Horticultural Journal (1828) 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 4.2: Selections from Medicus, The Oracle of Health and Long Life Containing Plain and Practical Instructions for the Preservation of Sound Health…(1837) 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 4.3: Selections from Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife (1829) 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 4.4: Excerpts from Sylvester Graham, “A Defence of the Graham System of Living” (1837) 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 4.5: The Mormon “Word of Wisdom” (1833) 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 4.6: Political Cartoon: “A Member of the Temperance Society” (c. 1833) 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 4.7: Family Dietary Advice from William Andrus Alcott, The Young Wife (1837) 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5 Food on the Frontier 88\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 5.1: Thomas Jefferson’s Agrarian Ideal, from Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 5.2: Excerpt from Judge William Cooper, A Guide in the Wilderness (1810) 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 5.3: Food in the West with Lewis and Clark (From their Journals, 1804) 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 5.4: Selections from The Diary of Patrick Breen (1846) 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 5.5: Gold Rush Food: Selections from Lansford W. Hastings, The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California (1845) and Elisha Douglas Perkins, Gold Rush Diary (1849) 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 5.6: Advertisement for Cyrus McCormick’s Mechanical Reaper (1846) 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6 The Civil War (1861–1865) 103\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 6.1: Selections from the Diary of Louis Léon (CSA) 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 6.2: The Confederate Right to Impress Food, a selection from “A Bill to Provide Supplies for the Army and to Prescribe the Mode of Making Impressments” (1864) 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 6.3: Photograph of Hardtack 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 6.4: “A Dangerous Novelty in Memphis,” cartoon by Frank Bellew, Harper’s Weekly (1862) 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 6.5: Photographs of Prisoners Liberated from Confederate Prisons (1865) 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7 Food Reborn: Immigration, Urbanization, and Eating (1857–1905) 111\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 7.1: Observations of Food and Cooking in Texas: Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey Through Texas (1857) 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 7.2: Documents on Irish Immigration from Mary Anne Sadlier, Bessy Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America (1885) and John O’Hanlon, The Irish Emigrant’s Guide for the United States (1861) 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 7.3: Recipes for “Broth in haste,” “Cheap white,” and “Tongue, Braised, with Aspic Jelly,” from Lafcadio Hearn, Creole Cookbook (1887) 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 7.4: Platform of the Populist Party (1892) 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 7.5: Cooking Utensils for Sale in the 1912 Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 7.6: Ernest H. Crosby, Letter to The New York Times on Vegetarianism (1905) 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Feeding a Modern World: Revolutions in Farming, Food, and Famine 125\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8 The Progressive Era and Food 127\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 8.1: Samuel Gompers, Meat vs. Rice: American Manhood Against Asiatic Coolieism, Which Shall Survive (1901) 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 8.2: The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (1906) 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 8.3: “Riots in Newark Over Meat Boycott,” The New York Times (1910) 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 8.4: “Girls’ Canning Clubs” from the Wyoming Farm Bulletin (1914) 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 8.5: Lyrics to the Song, “Hoover’s Goin’ to Get You!” (1918) 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 8.6: Excerpts from Christine Frederick, “The New Housekeeping,” Ladies’ Home Journal (1912) 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 8.7: LuAnn Jones, “Work Was My Pleasure: An Oral History of Nellie Stancil Langley” (1991) 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 8.8: “HOT Hamburger: Just Off the Griddle” (1926) 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9 The Great Depression 151\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 9.1: Oscar Heline, farmer from Iowa, interviewed by Studs Terkel in Hard Times (1970) 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 9.2: John Steinbeck, “The Harvest of Gypsies,” San Francisco Chronicle (1936) 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 9.3: Excerpt from Kathy Mays Smith, Gold Medal: CCC Company 1538, A Documentary (2001) 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 9.4: Lynn]Pgh, Recipe for “Depression Cake” (circa 1935) 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 9.5: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Address” (1935) 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10 World War II and the Food and Government Revolution 170\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 10.1: Office of Price Administration, “How to Use Your War Ration Book” (1943) 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 10.2: Clive McCay, “Eat Well to Work Well: The Lunch Box Should Carry a Hearty Meal,” in War Emergency Bulletin No. 38 (1942) 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 10.3: World War II Era Advertisement, “Have a ‘Coke’ = Good Winds Have Blown You Here” (1943) 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 10.4: “The Official Bracero Agreement,” For the Temporary Migration of Mexican Agricultural Workers to the United States (1942) 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 10.5: Excerpt from Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, Farewell to Manzanar (1973), 35–38 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11 The Postwar Food Revolution(s) of Suburban America 187\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 11.1: Photograph of Super Giant Supermarket, Rockville, Maryland (1964) 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 11.2: Excerpt from Emily Post, “Restaurant Etiquette” in Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage (1957) 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 11.3: Excerpt from Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 11.4: Swanson Advertisement, “Everybody Wins” (1963) 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 11.5: Excerpts from Norman Borlaug’s lecture “The Green Revolution, Peace, and Humanity,” Delivered Upon Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize (1970) 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 11.6: Margaret Visser, “A Meditation on the Microwave,” Psychology Today (1989) 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 12 Eating Civil Rights 217\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 12.1: Announcement of New Segregated Restaurant Law, Birmingham Age]Herald (1914) 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 12.2: Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, “Food for Fight for Freedom” (1965) 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 12.3: Black Panther Party, “To Feed Our Children,” The Black Panther (1969) 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 12.4: Eliseo Medina, “Why A Grape Boycott?” (circa 1969) 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 12.5: Ralph Johnson and Patricia Reed, “What’s Wrong with Soul Food,” The Black Collegian (1981) 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 12.6: “Marlon Brando, S.F. Cleric Arrested for Fishing Illegally,” Seattle Daily Times (1964) 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 12.7: Vietnamese Fishermen’s Association, et al., Plaintiffs, v. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, et al., Defendants. Civ. A. No. H]81]895. United States District Court, S. D. Texas, Houston Division (1981) 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 12.8: Press Release: “T.G.I. Friday’s® to Bring ‘Magic’ Brand of Restaurants to Urban Communities” (1998) 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 13 The Counterculture and the Lunch Counter 248\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 13.1: Excerpts from Gordon and Phyllis Grabe, The Hippie Cookbook or Don’t Eat Your Food Stamps (1970) 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 13.2: Kit Leder, “Women in the Communes,” Women: A Journal of Liberation (1969) 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 13.3: Excerpt from Carol Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist]Vegetarian Critical Theory, 20th Anniversary Edition (2010) 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 13.4: Hanna Rosin, “The Evil Empire: The Scoop on Ben \u0026amp; Jerry’s Crunchy Capitalism,” The New Republic (1995) 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 13.5: Bryant Simon, “Why Starbucks Lost its Mojo,” Christian Science Monitor (2005) 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 14 Cheap Food, Cheap Calories 266\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 14.1: Centers for Disease Control Maps of the Obesity Trend in the United States (1985–2010) 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 14.2: Excerpt from Judge Robert Sweet Opinion in Pelman v. McDonald’s Corp. (2003) 268\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 14.3: Michael Pollan, “Down on the Industrial Organic Farm,” The New York Times Magazine (2001) 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 14.4: Avi Solomon, “Working Undercover in a Slaughterhouse: An Interview with Timothy Pachirat,” Boing, Boing (2008) 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 14.5: Statement of Sarah C. White, Member, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1529 (1990) 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 14.6: Excerpt from Sarah Wu, also known as “Mrs. Q.,” Fed Up with Lunch: How One Anonymous Teacher Revealed the Truth about School Lunches—And How We Can Change Them! (2011) 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 14.7: Excerpt from “Fat Liberation Manifesto” (1973) 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 15 Foodies and the Complexities of Consumption 297\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 15.1: Menu from Spago Restaurant (1987) 297\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 15.2: Andrew Chan, “‘La Grande Bouffe’: Cooking Shows as Pornography,” Gastronomica (2003) 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 15.3: Rabbi Nahum Ward-Lev and Shelley Mann-Lev, “Keeping Eco]kosher” (1990) 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 15.4: Mill Creek Farm’s Mission Statement and Values (2017) 306\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 15.5: Excerpt from Gustavo Arellano, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America (2014) 309\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 15.6: Rachel Kuo, “The Feminist Guide to Being a Foodie Without Being Culturally Appropriative,” from everydayfeminism.com (2015) 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument: 15.7: Photograph of People Waiting for Korean Tacos from the Kogi Truck, Torrance, CA (2009) 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 15.8: Greg Wright, “French Fries, Mais Non, Congress Calls em ‘Freedom Fries’,” USA Today (2003) 320\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument 15.9: Kayleigh Rogers, “When Prison Food is Punishment,” from the blog Motherboard (2015) 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 328\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406950965591,"sku":"9781118936399","price":37.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118936399.jpg?v=1730497667","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/food-and-eating-in-america-9781118936399","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}