Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet

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University of California Press, 30.05.2003 - 275 Seiten
This book, first published by OUP, is a classic of culinary history; with his discussion of the revolution that took place in American attitudes toward food between 1880 and 1930, Levenstein laid the the foundation for the social history of food in modern America.
 

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The BritishAmerican Culinary Heritage
3
How the Other Half Ate
23
The Rise of the Giant Food Processors
30
The New England Kitchen and the Failure to Reform WorkingClass Eating Habits
44
The Servant Problem and MiddleClass Cookery
60
The New Nutritionists Assault the Middle Classes
72
Scientists Pseudoscientists and Faddists
86
New Reformers and New Immigrants
98
The Controversy Over Artificial Feeding of Infants
121
Food Will Win the War
137
The Newer Nutrition 19151930
147
A Revolution of Declining Expectations
161
Workers and Farmers During the Prosperity Decade
173
The Old Restaurant Order Changeth
183
Notes
213
Index
261

The Great Malnutrition Scare 19071921
109

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Harvey Levenstein is Professor Emeritus of History at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Among his books are Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America, Revised Edition (California, 2003), Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from the Jefferson to the Jazz Age (1998), and Communism, Anticommunism and the CIO (1981).

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