Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 7) - Softcover

Levenstein, Harvey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520234391 ISBN 13: 9780520234390

Publisher: University of California Press, 2003

Synopsis

In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930.

About this title

About the Author:

Harvey Levenstein is Professor Emeritus of History at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Among his books are Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America, Revised Edition (California, 2003), Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from the Jefferson to the Jazz Age (1998), and Communism, Anticommunism and the CIO (1981).

Review:

"One of the most interesting and informative indexes into the nature of American culture, this book opens the eyes to the pages of American cultural history which are often taken for granted: we are what we eat but we often don't try to understand why we eat what we eat....The book should be on the table of every one interested in food--gastronomically or educationally! Bon appetit!"--"Journal of American Culture"

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0520234391
• ISBN 13: 9780520234390
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304