Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity
"An important book. More so than any other work in food history, Bentley has put politics, both local and national, into the history of foodways... Her analysis of rhetoric, posters, advertisements, photography, table settings, and arrangement of people at dinners enables her to explore eating as a cultural activity. Above all, her weaving of social history, public policy, and anthropologically-informed cultural analysis underscores the complexity of her achievement." -- Daniel Horowitz, American Quarterly