Consumed
Subtitle: Why Americans Hate, Love, and Fear Food
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: April 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780671501013
Subjects: Food & Drink / Cookery; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Customs & Traditions; Diets - Better Health; Social Science / General; Social Science-Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science-Customs & Traditions
First sentence: It may come as something of a surprise to those embedded in today's culture of technologically altered foodstuffs and double-blind studies of cholesterol and heart disease to learn that many aspects of our current response to food were foreshadowed one hundred years ago, in an age when electricity was new and polyunsaturated fats virtually unknown.