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by Carole Counihan Routledge; ISBN: 0415932327; 1st edition (July 15, 2002) Food in the USA: A Reader is a comprehensive anthology
of recent scholarly articles about the meanings and behaviors surrounding
the production, distribution and consumption of food in the United States.
Articles highlight the contributions of food and culture studies to understanding
the contemporary United States and address five main questions (1) What
is US food and is there a national cuisine? (2) How have US food and cuisine
been made and at what cost? (3) How have people used eating, fasting, and
commensality to cope with power, exploitation, and connection? (4)
How do foodways signify identity and keep cultural traditions and personal
stories alive, even under conditions of oppression? (5) How is the
spread of the capitalist food economy around the globe affecting food quality
and access, and what alternatives to corporate food production and distribution
exist? All articles were originally published between 1988 and 2001.
They represent the diversity of US foodways and people, present original
scholarship with an array of disciplinary approaches, and address pressing
social concerns centered around food, identity, and power.
Table of Contents Part I - Food and the Nation 1. Introduction: Food and the Nation
2. The Taste of Y2K
3. Eating American
4. What Do We Eat? Who Are We?
5. The Invention of Thanksgiving: a Ritual of American Nationality
6. Future Notes: The Meal-in-a-Pill
Part II - Making U.S. Food 7. The American Response to Italian Food, 1880-1930
8. The Origins of Soul Food in Black Urban Identity: Chicago, 1915-1947
9. The Nutritional Impacts of European Contact on the Omaha: A Continuing
Legacy
10. Consumer Culture and Participatory Democracy: The Story of
Coca Cola during World War II
11. “Farm Boys Don’t Believe in Radicals”: Rural Time and Meatpacking
Workers
12. The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the
United States
Part III - Complexities of Consumption 13. Islands of Serenity: Gender, Race, and Ordered Meals during World
War II
14. The Passover Seder: Ritual Dynamics, Foodways, and Family
Folklore
15. Continuity and Change in Symptom Choice: Anorexia
16. ‘A Way Outa No Way’: Eating Problems among African-American,
Latina, and White Women
17. Diabetes, Diet, and Native American Foraging Traditions
18. The Contemporary Soup Kitchen
Part IV - Food Signifying Identities 19. The Signifying Dish: Autobiography and History in Two Black
Women’s Cookbooks
20. ‘To Eat the Flesh of His Dead Mother’: Hunger, Masculinity,
and Nationalism in Frank Chin’s Donald Duk
21. ‘We Got Our Way of Cooking Things’: Women, Food, and Preservation
of Cultural Identity among the Gullah,
22. Food as Women’s Voice in the San Luis Valley of Colorado
23. Food, Masculinity and Place in the Hispanic Southwest
24. “Who Deserves a Break Today?”: Fast Food, Cultural Rituals, and
Women’s Place
Part V - Food and the Emerging World 25. The International Political Economy of Food: A Global Crisis
26. China’s Big Mac Attack
27. NAFTA and Basic Food Production: Dependency and Marginalization
on Both Sides of the US/Mexico Border
28. New Agricultural Biotechnologies: The Struggle for Democratic Choice
29. Hunger in the United States: Policy Implications
30. Growing Food, Growing Community: Community Supported Agriculture
in Rural Iowa
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