Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America / Edition 1

by Harvey Levenstein

Overview

In this sweeping history of food and eating in modern America, Harvey Levenstein explores the social, economic, and political factors that have shaped the American diet since 1930.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520234406
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	05/30/2003
Series:	California Studies in Food and Culture , #8
Edition description:	First Edition, Revised Edition
Pages:	362
Sales rank:	686,641
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Harvey Levenstein is Professor Emeritus of History at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Among his books are Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet (California, 2003), Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from the Jefferson to the Jazz Age (1998), and Communism, Anticommunism and the CIO (1981).

Table of Contents

Prologue: Depression Paradoxes

1. Depression Dieting and the Vitamin Gold Rush
2. The Great Regression: The New Woman Goes Home
3. From Burgoo to Howard Johnson's: Eating Out in Depression America
4. One-third of a Nation Ill Nourished?
5. Oh What a Healthy War: Nutrition for National Defense
6. Food Shortages for the People of Plenty
7. The Golden Age of Food Processing: Miracle Whip uber Alles
8. The Best-fed People the World Has Ever Seen?
9. Cracks in the Facade: 1958-1965
10. The Politics of Hunger
11. Nutritional Terrorism
12. The Politics of Food
13. Natural Foods and Negative Nutrition
14. Darling, Where Did You Put the Cardamom?
15. Fast Foods and Quick Bucks
16. Paradoxes of Plenty

Epilogue
Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Periodicals 2
Notes
Index