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Food and Eating in America : A Documentary Reader
Food and Eating in America : A Documentary Reader
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Author(s): Giesen, James C.
ISBN No.: 9781118936382
Pages: 352
Year: 201803
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 165.13
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Series Editors Preface xii Part I: An Appetizer: What Food and Eating Tell Us About America 1 Part II: Hunting, Harvesting, Starving, and the Occasional Feast: Food in Early America 9 Chapter 1 Food in the New World: Pre ]Columbian Era through the American Revolution 11 Document 1.1: The Cherokee Creation Story, How the World Was Made, Wahnenauhi Version 11 Document 1.2: John Smith s History of the Starving Times at Jamestown Colony (1609) 13 Document 1.3: English Artist John White s drawings of Native Americans fishing, cooking, and preparing corn (1580s) 15 Document 1.4: Edward Winslow on the First Thanksgiving, 1621 18 Document 1.5: A Micmac Perspective on Europeans Way of Life, near Quebec (c. 1677) 21 Document 1.6: John Winthrop, Jr.


, Report to the Royal Society of London on Indian Corn (1662) 23 Document 1.7: Observations on American Vegetables Versus English Vegetables, from John Josselyn, New ]England s Rarities Discovered (1672), and Francis Higginson, New ]England s Plantation (1630) 25 Document 1.8: A Soldier s Perspective on the Revolutionary War, Selections from the Memoir of Private Joseph Plumb Martin (1777) 27 Document 1.9: A General s Perspective: A Letter from General Horatio Gates to Major General Caswell (August 3, 1780) 30 Document 1.10: Selections from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791) on Communal Eating and Vegetarianism 31 Chapter 2 Food, Foodways, and Conflict in the Early Republic 34 Document 2.1: Amelia Simmons, American Cookery (1796), Preface, and Selected Recipes 34 Document 2.2: The Preface, Introduction, and Assorted Recipes from Mary Randolph, The Virginia House ]Wife (1824) 36 Document 2.3: Unidentified artist, Benjamin Hawkins and the Creek Indians (Painting, c.


1805) 41 Document 2.4: John Lewis Krimmel, The Quilting Frolic (Painting, 1813) 42 Document 2.5: Excerpt from Joseph Doddridge, Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia (1824), Chapter 5, Beasts and Birds 44 Document 2.6: Selections from English Phrenologist George Combe, Notes on the United States During a Phrenological Visit in 1838 9 40, vol. II. (1841) 45 Document 2.7: A Variation of the Lyrics of Home Sweet Home, a Popular Song of the Early Republic (c. 1830) 47 Part III: Fields and Foods in the Nineteenth Century 49 Chapter 3 Slavery and Food in the Old South 51 Document 3.


1: Selections from Frederick Douglass, Memoirs on Food and Slavery (1845) 51 Document 3.2: Excerpts from Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) on Slaves Weekly Rations, Punishments for Slaves Stealing Food from Master, and Slave Taste Testers for Master 55 Document 3.3: Images of the Antebellum South 56 Document 3.4: Excerpts from Daniel R. A. C. Hundley, Social Relations in Our Southern States (1860) 59 Document 3.5: Selections from Planter James Battle Avirett, The Old Plantation: How We Lived in Great House and Cabin Before the War (1901) 62 Document 3.


6: Excerpts from William H. Robinson, From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, or Fifteen Years in Slavery (1913) 65 Document 3.7: Excerpts from Allen Parker, Recollections of Slavery Times (1895) 67 Chapter 4 Agriculture and Food in the Age of Reform 70 Document 4.1: Advice on Farm Management, from The New England Farmer and Horticultural Journal (1828) 70 Document 4.2: Selections from Medicus, The Oracle of Health and Long Life Containing Plain and Practical Instructions for the Preservation of Sound Health (1837) 72 Document 4.3: Selections from Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife (1829) 75 Document 4.4: Excerpts from Sylvester Graham, A Defence of the Graham System of Living (1837) 77 Document 4.5: The Mormon Word of Wisdom (1833) 82 Document 4.


6: Political Cartoon: A Member of the Temperance Society (c. 1833) 84 Document 4.7: Family Dietary Advice from William Andrus Alcott, The Young Wife (1837) 85 Chapter 5 Food on the Frontier 88 Document 5.1: Thomas Jefferson s Agrarian Ideal, from Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) 88 Document 5.2: Excerpt from Judge William Cooper, A Guide in the Wilderness (1810) 91 Document 5.3: Food in the West with Lewis and Clark (From their Journals, 1804) 92 Document 5.4: Selections from The Diary of Patrick Breen (1846) 96 Document 5.5: Gold Rush Food: Selections from Lansford W.


Hastings, The Emigrants Guide to Oregon and California (1845) and Elisha Douglas Perkins, Gold Rush Diary (1849) 98 Document 5.6: Advertisement for Cyrus McCormick s Mechanical Reaper (1846) 101 Chapter 6 The Civil War (1861 1865) 103 Document 6.1: Selections from the Diary of Louis Léon (CSA) 103 Document 6.2: The Confederate Right to Impress Food, a selection from A Bill to Provide Supplies for the Army and to Prescribe the Mode of Making Impressments (1864) 105 Document 6.3: Photograph of Hardtack 106 Document 6.4: A Dangerous Novelty in Memphis, cartoon by Frank Bellew, Harper s Weekly (1862) 107 Document 6.5: Photographs of Prisoners Liberated from Confederate Prisons (1865) 109 Chapter 7 Food Reborn: Immigration, Urbanization, and Eating (1857 1905) 111 Document 7.1: Observations of Food and Cooking in Texas: Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey Through Texas (1857) 111 Document 7.


2: Documents on Irish Immigration from Mary Anne Sadlier, Bessy Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America (1885) and John O Hanlon, The Irish Emigrant s Guide for the United States (1861) 113 Document 7.3: Recipes for Broth in haste, Cheap white, and Tongue, Braised, with Aspic Jelly, from Lafcadio Hearn, Creole Cookbook (1887) 116 Document 7.4: Platform of the Populist Party (1892) 118 Document 7.5: Cooking Utensils for Sale in the 1912 Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog 119 Document 7.6: Ernest H. Crosby, Letter to The New York Times on Vegetarianism (1905) 121 Part IV: Feeding a Modern World: Revolutions in Farming, Food, and Famine 125 Chapter 8 The Progressive Era and Food 127 Document 8.1: Samuel Gompers, Meat vs.


Rice: American Manhood Against Asiatic Coolieism, Which Shall Survive (1901) 127 Document 8.2: The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (1906) 129 Document 8.3: Riots in Newark Over Meat Boycott, The New York Times (1910) 132 Document 8.4: Girls Canning Clubs from the Wyoming Farm Bulletin (1914) 135 Document 8.5: Lyrics to the Song, Hoover s Goin to Get You! (1918) 137 Document 8.6: Excerpts from Christine Frederick, The New Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal (1912) 139 Document 8.7: LuAnn Jones, Work Was My Pleasure: An Oral History of Nellie Stancil Langley (1991) 146 Document 8.8: HOT Hamburger: Just Off the Griddle (1926) 149 Chapter 9 The Great Depression 151 Document 9.


1: Oscar Heline, farmer from Iowa, interviewed by Studs Terkel in Hard Times (1970) 151 Document 9.2: John Steinbeck, The Harvest of Gypsies, San Francisco Chronicle (1936) 155 Document 9.3: Excerpt from Kathy Mays Smith, Gold Medal: CCC Company 1538, A Documentary (2001) 160 Document 9.4: Lynn ]Pgh, Recipe for Depression Cake (circa 1935) 162 Document 9.5: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address (1935) 163 Chapter 10 World War II and the Food and Government Revolution 170 Document 10.1: Office of Price Administration, How to Use Your War Ration Book (1943) 170 Document 10.2: Clive McCay, Eat Well to Work Well: The Lunch Box Should Carry a Hearty Meal, in War Emergency Bulletin No.


38 (1942) 172 Document 10.3: World War II Era Advertisement, Have a Coke = Good Winds Have Blown You Here (1943) 175 Document 10.4: The Official Bracero Agreement, For the Temporary Migration of Mexican Agricultural Workers to the United States (1942) 178 Document 10.5: Excerpt from Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, Farewell to Manzanar (1973), 35 38 183 Chapter 11 The Postwar Food Revolution(s) of Suburban America 187 Document 11.1: Photograph of Super Giant Supermarket, Rockville, Maryland (1964) 187 Document 11.2: Excerpt from Emily Post, Restaurant Etiquette in Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage (1957) 189 Document 11.3: Excerpt from Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) 196 Document 11.


4: Swanson Advertisement, Everybody Wins (1963) 201 Document 11.5: Excerpts from Norman Borlaug s lecture The Green Revolution, Peace, and Humanity, Delivered Upon Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize (1970) 203 Document 11.6: Margaret Visser, A Meditation on the Microwave, Psychology Today (1989) 212 Chapter 12 Eating Civil Rights 217 Document 12.1: Announcement of New Segregated Restaurant Law, Birmingham Age ]Herald (1914) 217 Document 12.2: Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Food for Fight for Freedom (1965) 219 Document 12.3: Black Panther Party, To Feed Our Children, The Black Panther (1969) 224 Document 12.4: Eliseo Medina, Why A Grape Boycott? (circa 1969) 226 Document 12.5: Ralph Johnson and Patricia Reed, What s Wrong with Soul Food, The Black Collegian (1981) 230 Document 12.


6: Marlon Brando, S.F. Cleric Arrested for Fishing Illegally, Seattle Daily Times (1964) 233 Document 12.7: Vietnamese Fishermen s Association, et al., Plaintiffs, v. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, et al., Defendants. Civ.


A. No. H ]81 ]895. United States District Court, S. D. Texas, Houston Division (1981) 236 Document 12.8: Press Release: T.G.


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