"This absorbingly interesting book shines a novel light on the development of nutritional labeling in the United States. Taking its inspiration from science and technology studies, it knowledgeably identifies shifting 'assemblages' of people-plus-things in an intriguing and detailed history."--Anne Murcott, University of London and University of Nottingham " From Label to Table is an archaeology of the food label, digging down through the sedimentary levels that the label's seemingly simple contents conceal. Tracing this story is a signal accomplishment, but there is more. Interwoven with the narrative is an analysis that maps the FDA's changing methods of food regulation onto the broader dynamics of twentieth-century American capitalism, especially the shift from the New Deal order to post-1980 neoliberal politics. The book adeptly moves between these levels, thereby inserting the emergence of informational food labeling as part of the transformations of late capitalism."--Roger Horowitz, author of Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food.