Readings

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1 Introduction  
2 Food, Geography, History Buy at Amazon Bell, David, and Gill Valentine. Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat. London, UK: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415137683.
3 The Basics: History and Theory

Buy at Amazon Tannahill, Reay. Food in History. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780517884041.

Buy at Amazon Root, Waverley, and Richard de Rochemont. Eating in America: A History. New York, NY: Ecco, 1976. ISBN: 9780688030964.

Buy at Amazon Barthes, Roland. "Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption." In Food and Culture: A Reader. Edited by Carole Counihan, and Penny Van Esterik. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 20-27. ISBN: 9780415917100.

Buy at Amazon Levi-Strauss, Claude. "The Culinary Triange." In Food and Culture: A Reader. Edited by Carole Counihan, and Penny Van Esterik. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 28-35. ISBN: 9780415917100.

Buy at Amazon Douglas, Mary. "Deciphering a Meal." In Food and Culture: A Reader. Edited by Carole Counihan, and Penny Van Esterik. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 36-54. ISBN: 9780415917100.

4 Colonialism and Capitalism

Buy at Amazon Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York, NY: Viking Adult, 1985. ISBN: 9780670687022.

Buy at Amazon Weiner, Mark. "Consumer Culture and Participatory Democracy: The Story of Coca-Cola during World War II." In Food in the USA. Edited by Carole Counihan. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 123-141. ISBN: 9780415932325.

Buy at Amazon Roseberry, William. "The Rise of Yuppie Coffee and The Reimagination of Class in the United States." In Food in the USA. Edited by Carole Counihan. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 149-168. ISBN: 9780415932325.

Buy at Amazon Striffler, Steve. In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780822328636.

Buy at Amazon Dalby, Andrew. Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 2000. ISBN: 9780520227897.

5 The Raw and the Cooked, Frozen, Radiated, Etc.

Buy at Amazon Levenstein, Harvey. Paradox of Plenty. New York, NY: Oxford, 1988, 1993. ISBN: 9780195055436.

Hamilton, Shane. "Cold Capitalism: The Political Ecology of Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice." Agricultural History, no. 77 (Fall 2003): 557-81.

Spiller, James. "Radiant Cuisine-The Commercial Fate of Food Irradiation in the United States." Technology and Culture 45, no. 4 (October 2004). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Buchanan, Nick. "The Atomic Meal." In History and Technology. (Forthcoming)

Buy at Amazon Bruegel, Martin. "How the French Learned to Eat Canned Food, 1809-1930s." In Food Nations. Edited by Belasco, Warren and Philip Scranton. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001, pp. 113-130. ISBN: 9780415930772.

Buy at Amazon Stull, Donald, Michael Broadway, and David Griffith, eds. Any Way You Cut It: Meat Processing and Small Town America. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1995. ISBN: 9780700607228.

6 Meat

Buy at Amazon Fink, Deborah. Cutting into the Meatpacknig Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780807846957.

Striffler, Steven. "Inside a Poultry Processing Plant: An Ethnographic Portrait." Labor History, no. 43 (2002): 305-13.

Buy at Amazon Page, Brian. "Restructuring Pork Production, Remaking Rural Iowa." In Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring. Edited by David Goodman, and Michael Watts. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 133-157. ISBN: 9780415162531.

Boyd, William, and Michael Watts. "Agro-Industrial Just-in-Time: The Chicken Industry and Postwar American Capitalism." In Goodman and Watts. pp. 192-225.

Buy at Amazon Stull, Donald, Michael Broadway, and David Griffith, eds. Any Way You Cut It: Meat Processing and Small Town America. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1995. ISBN: 9780700607228.

7 Produce

Kramer, Mark. Three Farms: Making Meat, Milk and Money from the American Soil. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987. ISBN: 0674889363. Chapter on Tomatoes.

Buy at Amazon McPhee, John. Oranges. New York: Noonday Press, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991, 1975. ISBN: 9780374512972.

Barron, Hal. "Citriculture and Southern California: New Historical Perspectives," Ronald Tobey, and Charles Wetherell. "The Citrus Industry and the Revolution of Corporate Capitalism in Southern California, 1887-1944," H. Vincent Moses. "'The Orange Grower is not a Farmer': G. Harold Powell, Riverside Orchardists, and the Coming of Industrial Agriculture, 1893-1930," and Grace Larsen. "Commentary." California History, no. 74 (Spring 1995): 2-45.

Buy at Amazon Guthman, Julie. Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780520240940.

Buy at Amazon Lang, James. Notes of a Potato Watcher. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 2001. ISBN: 9781585441389.

8 Rice: Food, Identity, and Subsistence

Buy at Amazon Vennum, Thomas, Jr. Wild Rice and the Ojibway People. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1988. ISBN: 9780873512268.

Sisters, Kitchen. "Ricing Time: Harvesting on the Lakes of White Earth."

Buy at Amazon Carney, Judith. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780674008342.

Buy at Amazon Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780691021102.

9 Taboos and Identity

Buy at Amazon Peterson, Dale. Eating Apes. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780520230903.

Buy at Amazon Harris, Marvin. "The Abominable Pig," and "Hippophagy." In Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1986, pp. 67-108. ISBN:  9780671503666.

Pollan, Michael. "An Animal's Place." New York Times Sunday Magazine, November 10, 2002, pp. 58-65, 100, and 110-111.

10 Global Food, Global Surprises

Buy at Amazon Friedberg, Susanne. French Beans and Food Scares: Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age. New York, NY: Oxford, 2004. ISBN: 9780195169607.

Buy at Amazon Watson, James L., ed. Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780804732079.

Buy at Amazon Goodman, David, and Michael Watts, eds. Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415162531.

Buy at Amazon Bonanno, Alessandro, Lawrence Busch, Willliam Friedland, Lourdes Gouveia, and Enzo Mingione, eds. From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994. ISBN: 9780700606610.

11 Slow and Fast

Buy at Amazon Petrini, Carlo. Slow Food (The Case for Taste). New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780231128445.

Buy at Amazon Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. ISBN: 9780395977897.

Buy at Amazon Kimbrell, Andrew, ed. Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture. Sausalito: Foundation for Deep Ecology, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002. ISBN: 9781559639415.

Buy at Amazon Belasco, Warren. Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1993. ISBN: 9780801481284.

12 Biotechnology and Food Futures

Buy at Amazon Nottingham, Stephen. Eat Your Genes: How Genetically Modified Food is Entering our Diet. New York, NY: Zed, 1998. ISBN: 9781856495783.

Buy at Amazon Lambrecht, Bill. Dinner at the New Gene Café. New York, NY: Thomas Dunne, 2001. ISBN: 9780312265755.

Seabrook, John. "Tremors in the Hothouse." New Yorker, July 19, 1993, pp. 40-41.