Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer SocietiesWarren James Belasco, Philip Scranton Featuring the work of some of the most established scholars in the food studies field, Food Nations looks at the connections between food, culture, and commerce. The essays in this collection pick at what we eat for all its ideological and political implications, such as Foodscapes in Los Angeles, the politics of the California avocado, or the cultural subtext of baby food. |
Contents
Food Matters Perspectives on an Emerging Field | 8 |
Food and Eating Some Persisting Questions | 24 |
Rituals of Pleasure in the Land of Treasures Wine Consumption and the Making of French Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century | 34 |
Eddie Shack Was No Time Horton Donuts and the Folklore of Mass Culture in Canada | 48 |
Food and Nationalism The Origins of Belizean Food | 67 |
Inventing Baby Food Gerber and the Discourse of Infancy in the United States | 92 |
How the French Learned to Eat Canned Food 18091930s | 113 |
Searching for Gold in Guacamole California Growers Market the Avocado 19101994 | 131 |
As American as Budweiser and Pickles? NationBuilding in American Food Industries | 175 |
Comida sin par Consumption of Mexican Food in Los Angeles Foodscapes in a Traditional Consumer Society | 194 |
Industrial Tortillas and Folkloric Pepsi The Nutritional Consequences of Hybrid Cuisines in Mexico | 222 |
Berlin in the Belle Epoque A FastFood History | 240 |
Food and the Politics of Scarcity in Urban Soviet Russia 19171941 | 258 |
Notes on the Contributors | 277 |
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Untangling Alliances Social Tensions surrounding Independent Grocery Stores and the Rise of Mass Retailing | 156 |
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