Ebook: How the other half ate : a history of working class meals at the turn of the century
Author: Turner Katherine Leonard
- Tags: Food habits -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Food habits -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Working class -- United States -- Social conditions. Working class -- United States -- Social life and customs. Working class -- United States -- Economic conditions. Food habits. Working class -- Economic conditions. Working class -- Social con
- Series: California studies in food and culture 48
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: University of California Press
- City: United States., USA
- Language: English
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neighborhoods, and the tools, utilities, and size of their kitchensalong with their cultural heritage. How the Other Half Ate is a deep exploration by historian and lecturer Katherine Turner that delivers an unprecedented and thoroughly researched study of the changing food landscape in American working-class families from industrialization through the 1950s.
Relevant to readers across a range of disciplineshistory, economics, sociology, urban studies, women’s studies, and food studiesthis work fills an important gap in historical literature by illustrating how families experienced food and cooking during the so-called age of abundance. Turner delivers an engaging portrait that shows how America’s working class, in a multitude of ways, has shaped the foods we eat today.
Relevant to readers across a range of disciplineshistory, economics, sociology, urban studies, women’s studies, and food studiesthis work fills an important gap in historical literature by illustrating how families experienced food and cooking during the so-called age of abundance. Turner delivers an engaging portrait that shows how America’s working class, in a multitude of ways, has shaped the foods we eat today.
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