Revolution at the table :
Levenstein, Harvey A., 1938-
Revolution at the table : the transformation of the American diet / Harvey A. Levenstein. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1988. - xii, 275 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 213-260.
The American table in 1880: the tastes of the upper crust -- How the other half ate -- The rise of the giant food processors -- The New England kitchen and the failure to reform working-class eating habits -- The "servant problem" and middle-class cookery -- The new nutritionists assault the middle classes -- Scientists, pseudoscientists, and faddists -- New reformers and new immigrants -- The great malnutrition scare, 1907-1930 -- "Best for babies" or "preventable infanticide"?: the controversy over artificial feeding of infants, 1880-1930 -- "Food will win the war" -- The newer nutrition, 1915-1930 -- A revolution of declining expectations -- Workers and farmers during the "prosperity decade" -- The old (restaurant) order changeth -- Too rich and too thin?
0195043650 (alk. paper)
87022006
C89-3382-X
Food habits--History.--United States
Diet--History.--United States
Habitudes alimentaires--Histoire.--États-Unis
Régimes alimentaires--Histoire.--États-Unis
Diet--History--United States.
Food Habits--History--United States.
Americans Food habits, 1880-1930
GT2853.U5 / L48 1988
Revolution at the table : the transformation of the American diet / Harvey A. Levenstein. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1988. - xii, 275 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 213-260.
The American table in 1880: the tastes of the upper crust -- How the other half ate -- The rise of the giant food processors -- The New England kitchen and the failure to reform working-class eating habits -- The "servant problem" and middle-class cookery -- The new nutritionists assault the middle classes -- Scientists, pseudoscientists, and faddists -- New reformers and new immigrants -- The great malnutrition scare, 1907-1930 -- "Best for babies" or "preventable infanticide"?: the controversy over artificial feeding of infants, 1880-1930 -- "Food will win the war" -- The newer nutrition, 1915-1930 -- A revolution of declining expectations -- Workers and farmers during the "prosperity decade" -- The old (restaurant) order changeth -- Too rich and too thin?
0195043650 (alk. paper)
87022006
C89-3382-X
Food habits--History.--United States
Diet--History.--United States
Habitudes alimentaires--Histoire.--États-Unis
Régimes alimentaires--Histoire.--États-Unis
Diet--History--United States.
Food Habits--History--United States.
Americans Food habits, 1880-1930
GT2853.U5 / L48 1988