Bloomsbury Academic
Us History in 15 Foods
Key Metrics
- Anna Zeide
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Paperback
- 9781350211971
- 9.21 X 6.14 X 1 inches
- 1 pounds
- History > United States - General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
From corn and colonization to spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it is exists. Selecting 15 foods that represent key moment in the history of the United States, this book takes readers from before Columbus up to the present, hitting on major turning points along the way.
US History in 15 Foods takes well known everyday items like whiskey, graham crackers and Korean tacos, and shows the part they played in the making of America. How are oranges connected to Roosevelt's new deal? What can green bean casserole tell us about gender roles in the 20th century? And what did the first settlers of the United States think about the corn they were taught to grow by American Indians? Weaving food into colonialism, globalization, the history of race, economic depression, environmental change and more, Anna Zeide shows how America evolved through the food it ate.
Author Bio
Anna Zeide is an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech. She is also the founding director of the College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences Food Studies Program. She studies food as a way of understanding environmental change, dynamic cultural practices, consumer behavior, technology, health, and justice.
Her first book, Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry (University of California Press, 2018) won a James Beard media award in 2019.
She's now working on a history of food waste, on a book on U.S. History through 15 Foods, and editing an anthology on the making of modern food.
Source: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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