American appetites : a documentary reader /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-, Swindall, Lindsey R., 1977-
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, [2014]
Series:Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Series Editors Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Foundational Food
  • The Arapaho Learn How to Hunt Buffalo
  • The Iroquois Learn to Grow Beans, Corn, and Squash Together
  • Spanish Explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Encounters Pueblo Food, 1540
  • Athanase de Mézières Describes Wichita Food Habits in Eighteenth Century Texas
  • Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz Describes the Food of Eighteenth-Century Louisiana
  • Engravings by Jacques Le Moync de Morques Depict Native American Subsistence Strategies in Sixteenth-Century Florida
  • 2. Colonial Culinary Encounters
  • Englishman John Gerarde Evaluates the Nutritional Value of Maize, 1597
  • Olaudah Equiano Describes the Food of Seventeenth-Century Igbo
  • Alexander Falconbridge Describes the Food of the Middle Passage
  • Colonial Advertisement Offering Slaves for Sale Who Had Experience Cultivating Rice
  • Wahunsonacock Advises the English Residents of Jamestown Not to Steal Food from Native Americans
  • Captain John Smith Describes the Starving Time of 1609-1610
  • The Colonists at Plimoth Plantation Celebrate Their 1621 Harvest
  • Massachusetts Colonist Mary Rowlandson Describes the Food Eaten by the Algonquin Who Held Her Captive in 1675 and 1676
  • An Indentured Servant in Virginia Begs His Parents for Food, 1623
  • 3. Developing a National Cuisine
  • Cotton Mather Describes Religious Fasting, 1683
  • Changing Fireplace Technology
  • Sarah Kemble Knight Describes Dining during a 1704 Journey from Boston to New Haven
  • Cartoon Depicting Colonial Response to the British Tax on Tea, 1774
  • New York Coffeehouse, 1797
  • Excerpts from the First American Cookbook
  • Benjamin Franklin Gives Advice about Eating and Drinking in Poor Richard's Almanack
  • Thomas Jefferson Requests American Food while Living in France
  • Kitchen Inventory at Monticello Created by James Hemings
  • In a Letter to James Monroe, James Madison Reacts to Diplomatic Scandal over Dining Etiquette
  • 4. Nineteenth-Century Expansion
  • Lydia Maria Child Advises American Women, 1832
  • Memoir of a Wagon Train to California, 1849
  • Cowboys Eating on the Range
  • Song about John Chinaman, 1850s
  • Laguna Pueblo Women Grinding Corn
  • Rose Wilder Lanes Memoir of Life in the West, 1880s
  • 5. Foodways during Enslavement and War
  • Recipes and Advice for Southern Cooks, 1824
  • Frederick Douglass Recalls Childhood Hunger, 1845
  • Harriet Jacobs's Memoir, 1861
  • Diary of a Soldier from Illinois, 1862
  • Bread Riot in Richmond, 1863
  • Lincoln Declares a Day of National Thanksgiving, 1863
  • Union Officers Dining in the Field, 1864
  • Recipes and Counsel for Southern Women after the War, 1867
  • 6. Eating in an Age of Decadence and Empire
  • Criticism of Conspicuous Consumption, 1903
  • Dinner Party Etiquette in 1877
  • The Nation Magazine Comments on the "Servant Problem"
  • Dinner at Delmonico's
  • Advice on How to Achieve the Ideal Body Type in the Nineteenth Century
  • Lillian Russell: A Nineteenth-Century Beauty
  • Italian Foodways Expand the American Palate
  • Jewish Immigrants Import Kosher Food Practices
  • Food Vendors in New York City
  • Captain Frank N. Moore Testifies about the Quality of Military Food Supplies during the Spanish American War
  • Taft Banquet Highlights US Imperial Interests
  • 7. Food and Social Reform in the Progressive Era
  • John Harvey Kellogg Gives Dietary Advice to Adolescent Girls
  • Upton Sinclair Publicizes Unsanitary Conditions in Meat-Processing Facilities
  • A Multiethnic Dinner Party in the Age of Immigration
  • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe Advocate for the Training of Housewives
  • Pearl Idelia Ellis Argues that Dietary Reform Can Aid in Assimilation and End Crime
  • A Cooking Class at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1901
  • Mary Hinman Abel Creates Recipes for the Economically Disadvantaged
  • New York City Tenement Kitchen Doubles as a Home Workshop in 1911
  • The US Food Administration Asks for Voluntary Food Conservation during World War I
  • The Federal Government Equates Food Behavior with Military Behavior during World War I
  • 8. From Prohibition to the Great Depression
  • Migration and Memories of Food
  • Bemoaning the Approach of Prohibition, 1917
  • Raid on Alcohol, early 1920s
  • Anti-Saloon League Program, 1937
  • Difficulty Finding Tenants
  • Family Praying over Meal by Roadside, 1939
  • Children Return to School Hoping for Free Lunch, 1939
  • Rural Electrification Agency Improves Kitchens, 1930s-1940s
  • Ethnic Grocery Store in Houston
  • 9. Wartime Food and Postwar Consumption
  • Freedom from Want, 1941
  • Wartime Rationing, 1943
  • American Culinary Encounter, 1942
  • Eating in an Internment Camp, 1942
  • George C. Marshall on Hunger in Europe, 1947
  • Nutritional Recommendations, 1940S-1950S
  • New Appliances, 1950s
  • Condiment Production
  • Convenience Food Recipes, 1950s
  • Kitchen Debate, 1959
  • 10. Politics, Protest, and Food
  • Desegregating Eating Establishments in Arkansas, 1960s
  • Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, 1960s
  • The Diggers' Free City, 1968
  • Mentis from the Kennedy and Johnson White Houses, 1962 and 1964
  • Nixon in China, 1972
  • Senate Diet Hearings, 1973
  • 11. Contemporary Food Issues
  • Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 1980 and 1995
  • The US Department of Agriculture Develops Educational Icons to Give Dietary Advice
  • The US Department of Agriculture Certifies Some Food as Organic
  • The Federal Government Justifies Providing Subsistence for the Nation's Poorest Citizens
  • Let's Move! Factsheet
  • James McWilliams Advocates for Meatless Hot Dogs
  • A. Breeze Harper Urges the Food Movement to Be Sensitive to Issues of Race and Class
  • For Further Reading
  • Index.