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Paradox of plenty : a social history of eating in modern America / Harvey Levenstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.Description: ix, 337 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195055438 (alk. paper) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 394.1/2/0973 20
LOC classification:
  • GT2853.U5 L47 1993
Contents:
Prologue: Depression Paradoxes -- 1. Depression Dieting and the Vitamin Gold Rush -- 2. The Great Regression: The New Woman Goes Home -- 3. From Burgoo to Howard Johnson's: Eating Out in Depression America -- 4. One-third of a Nation Ill Nourished? -- 5. Oh What a Healthy War: Nutrition for National Defense -- 6. Food Shortages for the People of Plenty -- 7. The Golden Age of Food Processing: Miracle Whip uber Alles -- 8. The Best-fed People the World Has Ever Seen? -- 9. Cracks in the Facade: 1958-1965 -- 10. The Politics of Hunger -- 11. Nutritional Terrorism -- 12. The Politics of Food -- 13. Natural Foods and Negative Nutrition -- 14. Darling, Where Did You Put the Cardamom? -- 15. Fast Foods and Quick Bucks -- 16. Paradoxes of Plenty.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks GT2853.U5L47 1993 1 Available 33710000097175

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-322) and index.

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Prologue: Depression Paradoxes -- 1. Depression Dieting and the Vitamin Gold Rush -- 2. The Great Regression: The New Woman Goes Home -- 3. From Burgoo to Howard Johnson's: Eating Out in Depression America -- 4. One-third of a Nation Ill Nourished? -- 5. Oh What a Healthy War: Nutrition for National Defense -- 6. Food Shortages for the People of Plenty -- 7. The Golden Age of Food Processing: Miracle Whip uber Alles -- 8. The Best-fed People the World Has Ever Seen? -- 9. Cracks in the Facade: 1958-1965 -- 10. The Politics of Hunger -- 11. Nutritional Terrorism -- 12. The Politics of Food -- 13. Natural Foods and Negative Nutrition -- 14. Darling, Where Did You Put the Cardamom? -- 15. Fast Foods and Quick Bucks -- 16. Paradoxes of Plenty.