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viii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Food and the nation -- The taste of Y2K -- Eating American -- What do we eat? -- The invention of Thanksgiving: a ritual of American nationality -- Future notes: the meal-in-a-pill -- The American response to Italian food, 1880-1930 -- The orgins of Soul food in black urban identity: Chicago, 1915-1947 -- The nutritional impact of European contact on the Omaha: a continuing legacy -- Consumer culture and participatory democracy: the story of Coca-Cola during World War II -- "Farm boys don't believe in radicals": rural time and meatpacking workers -- The rise of yuppie coffees and the reimagination of class in the United States -- Islands of serenity: gender, race, and ordered meals during World War II -- The Passover Seder: ritual dynamics, foodways, and family folklore -- Continuity and change in symptom choice: anorexia -- "A way outa no way": eating problems among African-American, Latina, and white women -- Diabetes, diet, and Native American foraging traditions -- The contemporary soup kitchen -- The signifying dish: autobiography and history in two black women's cookbooks -- "To eat the flesh of his dead mother": hunger, masculinity, and nationalism in Frank Chin's Donald Duk -- "We got our way of cooking things": women, food, and preservation of cultural identity among the Gullah -- Food as women's voice in the San Luis Valley of Colorado -- Food, masculinity, and place in the Hispanic Southwest -- Who deserves a break today? fast food, cultural rituals, and women's place -- The international political economy of food: a global crisis -- China's Big Mac attack -- NAFTA and basic food production: dependency and marginalization on both sides of the US/Mexican border -- New agricultural biotechnologies: the struggle for democratic choice -- Hunger in the United States: policy implications -- Growing food, growing community: community supported agriculture in rural Iowa.
Includes bibliographical references and index.