Acquired Tastes

Stories about the Origins of Modern Food

Acquired Tastes
Benjamin R Cohen, Michael S Kideckel
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h229 x 152mm - 272pg
17 Aug 2021 US
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9780262542913
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How modern food helped make modern society between 1870 and 1930- stories of power and food, from bananas and beer to bread and fake meat. The modern way of eating-our taste for food that is processed, packaged, and advertised-has its roots as far back as the 1870s. Many food writers trace our eating habits to World War II, but this book shows that our current food system began to coalesce much earlier. Modern food came from and helped to create a society based on racial hierarchies, colonization, and global integration. Acquired Tastes explores these themes through a series of moments in food history-stories of bread, beer, sugar, canned food, cereal, bananas, and more-that shaped how we think about food today. Contributors consider the displacement of native peoples for agricultural development; the invention of Pilsner, the first international beer style; the "long con" of gilded sugar and corn syrup; Josephine Baker' s banana skirt and the rise of celebrity tastemakers; and faith in institutions and experts who produced, among other things, food rankings and fake meat.
Benjamin R. Cohen is Associate Professor at Lafayette College and the author of Pure Adulteration- Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food. Michael S. Kideckel teaches history at Princeton Day School and is the author of the forthcoming Fresh from the Factory- Breakfast Cereal, Natural Food, and the Marketing of Reform, 1890-1920. Anna Zeide is Associate Professor of History and Director of Food Studies at Virginia Tech. She is the author of Canned- The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry, winner of the 2019 James Beard Award in Reference, History and Scholarship.

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