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Short History of the American Stomach by Frederick Kaufman (2008, Hardcover)
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- ISBN
- 9780151011940
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
015101194X
ISBN-13
9780151011940
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27038253262
Product Key Features
Book Title
Short History of the American Stomach
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology), Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), History, Customs & Traditions
Genre
Cooking, Social Science, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-017282
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
PRAISE FOR A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN STOMACH This rollicking survey of our national food manias from Cotton Mather (#145;Look after thy stomach') to Rachael Ray is amiably peripatetic." — New York Observer Witty and polemical . . . [Kaufman] makes some valuablepoints about how the stomach influences the waysAmericans view themselves."— Los Angeles Times , PRAISE FOR A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN STOMACH " This rollicking survey of our national food manias from Cotton Mather ('Look after thy stomach') to Rachael Ray is amiably peripatetic." -- New York Observer "Witty and polemical . . . [Kaufman] makes some valuablepoints about how the stomach influences the waysAmericans view themselves."-- Los Angeles Times , PRAISE FOR A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN STOMACH This rollicking survey of our national food manias from Cotton Mather (‘Look after thy stomach') to Rachael Ray is amiably peripatetic." - New York Observer Witty and polemical . . . [Kaufman] makes some valuablepoints about how the stomach influences the waysAmericans view themselves."- Los Angeles Times, PRAISE FOR A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN STOMACH " This rollicking survey of our national food manias from Cotton Mather ('Look after thy stomache(tm)) to Rachael Ray is amiably peripatetic.e -- New York Observer "Witty and polemical . . . [Kaufman] makes some valuablepoints about how the stomach influences the waysAmericans view themselves.e-- Los Angeles Times, PRAISE FOR A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN STOMACH " This rollicking survey of our national food manias from Cotton Mather ('Look after thy stomach') to Rachael Ray is amiably peripatetic. -- New York Observer "Witty and polemical . . . [Kaufman] makes some valuablepoints about how the stomach influences the waysAmericans view themselves.-- Los Angeles Times
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
394.1/2
Table Of Content
Contents Preface ix 1. Debbie Does Salad 1 2. The Sweet Taste of God 29 3. The Secret Ingredient 59 4. Manifest Dinner 87 5. Gorging on Diets 117 6. The Gastrosopher's Stone 151 7. Gut Reaction 187 Acknowledgments 195 Index 197
Synopsis
The extremes of American eating--our separate-but-equal urges to stuff and to starve ourselves--are easy to blame on the excesses of modern living. But Frederick Kaufman followed the winding road of the American intestine back to that cold morning when the first famished Pilgrim clambered off the Mayflower, and he discovered the alarming truth: We've been this way all along. With outraged wit and an incredible range of sources that includes everything from Cotton Mather's diary to interviews with Amish black-market raw-milk dealers, Kaufman offers a highly selective, take-no-prisoners tour of American history by way of the American stomach. Travel with him as he tracks down our earliest foodies; discovers the secret history of Puritan purges; introduces diet gurus of the nineteenth century, such as William Alcott, who believed that Ã'nothing ought to be mashed before it is eatenÃ"; traces extreme feeders from Paul Bunyan to eating-contest champ Dale Boone (descended from Daniel, of course); and investigates our blithe efforts to re-create plants and animals that we've eaten to the point of extinction., The extremes of American eating--our separate-but-equal urges to stuff and to starve ourselves--are easy to blame on the excesses of modern living. But Frederick Kaufman followed the winding road of the American intestine back to that cold morning when the first famished Pilgrim clambered off the Mayflower, and he discovered the alarming truth: We've been this way all along. With outraged wit and an incredible range of sources that includes everything from Cotton Mather's diary to interviews with Amish black-market raw-milk dealers, Kaufman offers a highly selective, take-no-prisoners tour of American history by way of the American stomach. Travel with him as he tracks down our earliest foodies; discovers the secret history of Puritan purges; introduces diet gurus of the nineteenth century, such as William Alcott, who believed that nothing ought to be mashed before it is eaten ; traces extreme feeders from Paul Bunyan to eating-contest champ Dale Boone (descended from Daniel, of course); and investigates our blithe efforts to re-create plants and animals that we've eaten to the point of extinction.
LC Classification Number
GT498.S76K48 2008
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