{"product_id":"food-and-eating-in-america-a-documentary-reader-1","title":"Food and Eating in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuides students through a rich menu of American history through food and eating\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book features a wide and diverse range of primary sources covering the cultivation, preparation, marketing, and consumption of food from the time before Europeans arrived in North America to the present-day United States. It is organized around what the authors label the “Four P’s”—production, politics, price, and preference—in order to show readers that food represents something more than nutrition and the daily meals that keep us alive. The documents in this book demonstrate that food we eat is a “highly condensed social fact” that both reflects and is shaped by politics, economics, culture, religion, region, race, class, and gender.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFood and Eating in America\u003c\/i\u003e covers more than 500 years of American food and eating history with sections on: An Appetizer: What Food and Eating Tell Us About America; Hunting, Harvesting, Starving, and the Occasional Feast: Food in Early America; Fields and Foods in the Nineteenth Century; Feeding a Modern World: Revolutions in Farming, Food, and Famine; and Counterculture Cuisines and Culinary Tourism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePresents primary sources from a wide variety of perspectives—Native Americans, explorers, public officials, generals, soldiers, slaves, slaveholders, clergy, businessmen, workers, immigrants, activists, African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, artists, writers, investigative reporters, judges, the owners of food trucks, and prison inmates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIllustrates the importance of eating and food through speeches, letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, illustrations, photographs, song lyrics, advertisements, legislative statutes, court rulings, interviews, manifestoes, government reports, and recipes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers a new way of exploring how people lived in the past by looking closely and imaginatively at food\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFood and Eating in America: A Documentary Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is an ideal book for students of United States history, food, and the social sciences. It will also appeal to foodies and those with a curiosity for documentary-style books of all kinds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54165762900312,"sku":null,"price":51.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781118936399.jpg?v=1778503536","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/food-and-eating-in-america-a-documentary-reader-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}