num_pages: 352
description: A fascinating look at dietary differences along class lines revealing that lack of access to healthy food is far from the primary driver of nutritional inequality in America. Inequality in America manifests in many ways but perhaps nowhere more than in how we eat. From her years of field research sociologist and ethnographer Priya Fielding-Singh brings us into the kitchens of dozens of families from varied educational economic and ethnoracial backgrounds to explore howand whywe eat the way we do. We get to know four families intimately: the Bakers a Black family living below the federal poverty line; the Williamses a working-class white family just above it; the Ortegas a middle-class Latinx family; and the Cains an affluent white family. Whether it's worrying about how far pantry provisions can stretch or whether there's enough time to get dinner on the table before soccer practice all families have unique experiences that reveal their particular dietary constraints and challenges. By diving into the nuances of these families lives Fielding-Singh lays bare the limits of efforts narrowly focused on improving families food access. Instead she reveals how being rich or poor in America impacts something even more fundamental than the food families can afford: these experiences impact the very meaning of food itself.Packed with lyrical storytelling and groundbreaking research as well as Fielding-Singhs personal experiences with food as a biracial South Asian American woman How the Other Half Eats illuminates exactly how inequality starts on the dinner plate. Once youve taken a seat at tables across America youll never think about class food and public health the same way again. 
language: English
title: How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
publisher: Little, Brown Spark