Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: food power, the food network, and American security
  • Freedom from want: creating a postwar food system
  • Fixed stomachs and convenience foods: abundance and food in the 1950s
  • Freedom to farm: prosperity, security, and "the farm problem" in the 1950s
  • What to eat after an atomic bomb: deploying food power defensively
  • Food for peace and the war on hunger: food power in the 1960s
  • The world food crisis and the end of the postwar food system
  • Conclusion: the past, present, and future of world food problems.