num_pages: 224
description: 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 kitchens--along 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 disciplines--history economics sociology urban studies women's studies and food studies--this 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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title: How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century
publisher: University of California Press