Showing of 4 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. I am a historian by trade. This is the first time that I have examined history through foodways. The book opened up a whole new perspective on American history. Well worth the read. It wasn't quite the page turner, but it wasn't a sleepy read either. I enjoyed reading about American history through the history of our food.
Heavy on the history, but also readable and entertaining. Our cultural history and our food are very connected to each other. One person found this helpful. It skip and jumps pages. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I recently purchased this item thinking it would be more easier to read and manage, but its just annoying. It is not user friendly. I don't own a kindle but I do own a iPad Air. I don't know if that may be the issue, but kindle should fix it! I wont ever purchase a digital copy of anything on Amazon!
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English Choose a language for shopping. Not Enabled Word Wise: Not Enabled Screen Reader: Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. American Stomach examines how Americans have produced food, cooked, and filled their stomachs from the colonial era to the present. Due to the complex history of conquest, enslavement, and immigration, the United States has never developed a singular cohesive culinary tradition. However, more than fusion and friction between different racial and ethnic groups went into creating American foodways.
Wallach demonstrates, for example, that technological innovations and ideas about industrialism and progress have also impacted what and how Americans eat.
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Moreover, the American diet is the product of more amorphous factors, the outgrowth of both shared and competing values. The history of food in America reveals changing and contradictory ideas about subjects including nationality, race, technological innovation, gender, politics, religion, and patriotism.
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To ask other readers questions about How America Eats , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Oct 07, Keely rated it liked it Shelves: This book is comprehensive and well researched, but the writing is so plodding and textbook-y that it is quite laborious to get through, and it suffers from a lack of specific examples that would make the passages come to life.
Here is a typical one: She really doesn't say either in the preceding or following paragraphs. There are several illuminating sections, including one that puts to rest some of the myths we take for granted about Thanksgiving, but overall the book has a hard time surpassing its tedious writing style and disappointing lack of diagrams, sample menus, recipes, and examples that would illustrate more clearly the points the author wants to make.
Her points are good and worth learning about, but getting there is not too much fun. By the way, I read one review describing numerous problems with the Kindle version - misplaced sections, missing pages, and the like.
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