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Books in Review: Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health

Books in Review: Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health Despite this finitude, the book does more than inaugurate new silos for research. Although presented in the disciplined prose of sociology, it invites plenty of academic, activist, and everyday engagements--from critiques of market-centric regulation, to concrete recommendations for increasing recycling participation, to making the familiar strange in domestic food preparation. The editors may be congratulated for having begun an important conversation that can only grow. David Boarder Giles, University of Canterbury Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health Charlotte Biltekoff Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013 208 pp. Illustrations. $22.95 (paper) Well-written, thoughtful, and provocative, Charlotte Biltekoff's Eating Right in America explores four dietary reform movements in four eras of US history: the domestic science movement around the turn of the twentieth century, nutrition reform on the World War II home front, the alternative food movement of the late twentieth century, and the modern anti-obesity campaign. In all cases, Biltekoff argues, ``lessons in eating right [have] doubled as lessons in good citizenship,'' and even seemingly bland dietary advice has communicated powerful subtexts about character and class (p. 125). The book starts with the early domestic science movement, which worked in tandem with emerging nutrition http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Gastronomica University of California Press

Books in Review: Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health

Veit, Helen Zoe
Gastronomica , Volume 14 (4) – Jan 1, 2014
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University of California Press
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© 2014 by The Regents of the University of California
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1529-3262
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1533-8622
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10.1525/gfc.2014.14.4.88
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Despite this finitude, the book does more than inaugurate new silos for research. Although presented in the disciplined prose of sociology, it invites plenty of academic, activist, and everyday engagements--from critiques of market-centric regulation, to concrete recommendations for increasing recycling participation, to making the familiar strange in domestic food preparation. The editors may be congratulated for having begun an important conversation that can only grow. David Boarder Giles, University of Canterbury Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health Charlotte Biltekoff Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013 208 pp. Illustrations. $22.95 (paper) Well-written, thoughtful, and provocative, Charlotte Biltekoff's Eating Right in America explores four dietary reform movements in four eras of US history: the domestic science movement around the turn of the twentieth century, nutrition reform on the World War II home front, the alternative food movement of the late twentieth century, and the modern anti-obesity campaign. In all cases, Biltekoff argues, ``lessons in eating right [have] doubled as lessons in good citizenship,'' and even seemingly bland dietary advice has communicated powerful subtexts about character and class (p. 125). The book starts with the early domestic science movement, which worked in tandem with emerging nutrition

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Published: Jan 1, 2014

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