Table of Contents

Prologue: Depression Paradoxes

1. Depression Dieting and the Vitamin Gold Rush
2. The Great Regression: The New Woman Goes Home
3. From Burgoo to Howard Johnson's: Eating Out in Depression America
4. One-third of a Nation Ill Nourished?
5. Oh What a Healthy War: Nutrition for National Defense
6. Food Shortages for the People of Plenty
7. The Golden Age of Food Processing: Miracle Whip uber Alles
8. The Best-fed People the World Has Ever Seen?
9. Cracks in the Facade: 1958-1965
10. The Politics of Hunger
11. Nutritional Terrorism
12. The Politics of Food
13. Natural Foods and Negative Nutrition
14. Darling, Where Did You Put the Cardamom?
15. Fast Foods and Quick Bucks
16. Paradoxes of Plenty

Epilogue
Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Periodicals 2
Notes
Index

About the Author

Harvey Levenstein is Professor Emeritus of History at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Among his books are Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet (California, 2003), Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from the Jefferson to the Jazz Age (1998), and Communism, Anticommunism and the CIO (1981).

Reviews

"Assuming the duty of telling Americans who they are through what they eat, Harvey Levenstein, in his latest chronicle of American food habits, reveals much about the United States and its inhabitants. . . . Levenstein's insightful description and analysis, the book's wealth of alternately humorous and sobering anecdotes, and its impressive array of information about food in modern U.S. society make for a stimulating glimpse into American culture."--"Reviews in American History