Contents

• 1. Introduction: Food and the Nation / Carole M. Counihan
• 2. The Taste of Y2K / John L. Hess and Karen Hess
• 3. Eating American / Sidney Mintz
• 4. What Do We Eat? / Donna Gabaccia
• 5. The Invention of Thanksgiving: A Ritual of American Nationality / Janet Siskind
• 6. Future Notes: The Meal-in-a-Pill / Warren Belasco
• 7. The American Response to Italian Food, 1880-1930 / Harvey Levenstein
• 8. The Origins of Soul Food in Black Urban Identity: Chicago, 1915-1947 / Tracey N. Poe
• 9. The Nutritional Impact of European Contact on the Omaha: A Continuing Legacy / Christiana E. Miewald
• 10. Consumer Culture and Participatory Democracy: The Story of Coca- Cola during World War II / Mark Weiner
• 11. "Farm Boys Don’t Believe in Radicals": Rural Time and Meatpacking Workers / Deborah Fink
• 12. The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the United States / William Roseberry
• 13. Islands of Serenity: Gender, Race, and Ordered Meals during World War II / Amy Bentley
• 14. The Passover Seder: Ritual Dynamics, Foodways, and Family Folklore / Sharon R. Sherman
• 15. Continuity and Change in Symptom Choice: Anorexia / Joan Jacobs Brumberg and Ruth Striegel-Moore
• 16. "A Way Outa No Way": Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women / Becky Wangsgaard Thompson
• 17. Diabetes, Diet, and Native American Foraging Traditions / Gary Paul Nabhan
• 18. The Contemporary Soup Kitchen / Irene Glasser
• 19. The Signifying Dish: Autobiography and History in Two Black Women’s Cookbooks / Rafia Zafar
• 20. "To Eat the Flesh of His Dead Mother": Hunger, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Frank Chin’s Donald Duk / Eileen Chia-Ching Fung
• 21. "We Got Our Way of Cooking Things": Women, Food, and Preservation of Cultural Identity among the Gullah / Josephine Beoku-Betts
• 22. Food as Women’s Voice in the San Luis Valley of Colorado / Carole M. Counihan
• 23. Food, Masculinity, and Place in the Hispanic Southwest / James M. Taggart
• 24. Who Deserves a Break Today? Fast Food, Cultural Rituals, and Women’s Place / Kate Kane
• 25. The International Political Economy of Food: A Global Crisis / Harriet Friedmann
• 26. China’s Big Mac Attack / James L. Watson
• 27. NAFTA and Basic Food Production: Dependency and Marginalization on Both Sides of the US/Mexico Border / James H. McDonald
• 28. New Agricultural Biotechnologies: The Struggle for Democratic Choice / Gerad Middendorf, Mike Skladany, Elizabeth Ransom and Lawrence Busch
• 29. Hunger in the United States: Policy Implications / Marion Nestle
• 30. Growing Food, Growing Community: Community Supported Agriculture in Rural Iowa / Betty L. Wells, Shelly Gradwell and Rhonda Yoder