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Acquired tastes : stories about the origins of modern food / edited by Benjamin R. Cohen, Michael S. Kideckel, and Anna Zeide.

Other author/creatorCohen, Benjamin R.
Other author/creatorKideckel, Michael S.
Other author/creatorZeide, Anna, 1984-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
Descriptionvii, 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs
Subject(s)
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 / RenĂ¢e 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2020049512
ISBN9780262542913 (paperback)

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