American appetites : a documentary reader /
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Fayetteville :
University of Arkansas Press,
[2014]
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| 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.