Food and Eating in America – A Documentary Reader Giesen Hardback 9781118936382

Food and Eating in AmericaA Documentary Reader\nAuthor(s): James C. Giesen, Bryant Simon\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781118936382, 978-1118936382\nSynopsis\nGuides students through a rich menu of American history through food and eating\n\n This book features a wide and diverse range of primary sources covering the cultivation, preparation, marketing, and consumption of food from the time before Europeans arrived in North America to the present-day United States. It is organized around what the authors label the Four Psproduction, politics, price, and preferencein order to show readers that food represents something more than nutrition and the daily meals that keep us alive. The documents in this book demonstrate that food we eat is a highly condensed social fact that both reflects and is shaped by politics, economics, culture, religion, region, race, class, and gender.\n\n Food and Eating in America cover.