Food in the USA or Really Useful Guide to White Wine

Food in the USA: A Reader

Author: Carole M Counihan

From Thanksgiving to fast food to anorexia nervosa, Food in the USA brings together essential reading on these topics and is the only substantial collection of essays on food and culture in America. The broad range of essay topics include: the corporate food industry, soup kitchens, meat-eating, fast food, waitressing, Coca-Cola, Aunt Jemima, the Passover seder, soul food, diabetes, and nutrition. Together, the collection provides a fascinating look at how and why we are what we eat.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: Food and the Nation	3
2	The Taste of Y2K	15
3	Eating American	23
4	What Do We Eat?	35
5	The Invention of Thanksgiving: A Ritual of American Nationality	41
6	Future Notes: The Meal-in-a-Pill	59
7	The American Response to Italian Food, 1880-1930	75
8	The Origins of Soul Food in Black Urban Identity: Chicago, 1915-1947	91
9	The Nutritional Impact of European Contact on the Omaha: A Continuing Legacy	109
10	Consumer Culture and Participatory Democracy: The Story of Coca-Cola during World War II	123
11	"Farm Boys Don't Believe in Radicals": Rural Time and Meatpacking Workers	143
12	The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the United States	149
13	Islands of Serenity: Gender, Race, and Ordered Meals during World War II	171
14	The Passover Seder: Ritual Dynamics, Foodways, and Family Folklore	193
15	Continuity and Change in Symptom Choice: Anorexia	205
16	"A Way Outa No Way": Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women	219
17	Diabetes, Diet, and Native American Foraging Traditions	231
18	The Contemporary Soup Kitchen	239
19	The Signifying Dish: Autobiography and History in Two Black Women's Cookbooks	249
20	"To Eat the Flesh of His Dead Mother": Hunger, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Frank Chin's Donald Duk	263
21	"We Got Our Way of Cooking Things": Women, Food, and Preservation of Cultural Identity among the Gullah	277
22	Food as Women's Voice in the San Luis Valley of Colorado	295
23	Food, Masculinity, and Place in the Hispanic Southwest	305
24	Who Deserves a Break Today? Fast Food, Cultural Rituals, and Women's Place	315
25	The International Political Economy of Food: A Global Crisis	325
26	China's Big Mac Attack	347
27	NAFTA and Basic Food Production: Dependency and Marginalization on Both Sides of the US/Mexico Border	359
28	New Agricultural Biotechnologies: The Struggle for Democratic Choice	373
29	Hunger in the United States: Policy Implications	385
30	Growing Food, Growing Community: Community Supported Agriculture in Rural Iowa	401
	Contributors	409
	Permissions	415
	Index	417

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Really Useful Guide to White Wine

Author: Susy Atkins

Armed with Susy Atkins' great little guide to white wine you will never again be daunted by lengthy restaurant wine lists, or settle for a medium-priced house white. Equipping the reader with all the information to choose and buy wine successfully, the chapters are organized by style of wine so that the reader can easily pick out the types of wine they most enjoy. Chapters include Light Dry Whites, Fruity Spicy Whites, Rich Oaky Whites, Champagne and Sparkling Wines. The reader is taught to appreciate the principal characteristics of each wine by looking at, smelling and tasting various wines and assessing their texture, appearance, aroma, flavor and finish.