num_pages: 238
description: American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Spam Bananas and Jell-O is a deeply researched and entertaining survey of twentieth century American food. Connecting cultural social and geopolitical aspects author Christina Ward (Preservation: The Art &amp; Science of Canning  Fermentation and Dehydration Process 2017) uses her expertise to tell the fascinating and often infuriating story of American culinary culture.Readers will learn of the role bananas played in the Iran-Contra scandal how Sigmund Freud's nephew decided Carmen Miranda would wear fruit on her head and how Puritans built an empire on pineapples. American food history is rife with crackpots do-gooders con men and scientists all trying to build a better America-while some were getting rich in the process.Loaded with full-color images Ward pulls recipes and images from her vast collection of cookbooks and a wide swath of historical advertisements to show the influence of corporations on our food trends. Though easy to mock once you learn the true history you will never look at Jell-O the same way again!American Advertising Cookbooks How Corporations Taught Us To Love Bananas Spam and Jell-O features full-color images and essays uncovering the origins of popular foods.
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title: American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O
publisher: Process