Modern food, moral food self-control, science, and the rise of modern American eating in the early twentieth century / Helen Zoe Veit.

Contents National willpower : American asceticism and self-government -- Eating cats and dogs to feed the world : the progressive quest for rational food -- Food will win the world : food aid and American power -- A school for wives : home economics and the modern housewife -- A corn-fed nation : race, diet, and the eugenics of nutrition -- Americanizing the American diet : immigrant cuisines and not-so-foreign foods -- The triumph of the will : the progressive body and the thin ideal.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 269-294) and index.
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LCCN 2012049092
ISBN9781469607702 (cloth : alk. paper)

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