A Short History of the American Stomach
by Frederick Kaufman
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 015101194X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011940
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Synopsis
The extremes of American eatingour separate-but-equal urges to stuff and to starve ourselvesare easy to blame on the excesses of modern living. But Frederick Kaufman followed the winding road of the American intestine back to that cold morning when the first famished Pilgrim clambered off the Mayflower, and he discovered the alarming truth: We’ve been this way all along. With outraged wit and an incredible range of sources that includes everything from Cotton Mather’s diary to interviews with Amish black-market raw-milk dealers, Kaufman offers a highly selective, take-no-prisoners tour of American history by way of the American stomach. Travel with him as he tracks down our earliest foodies; discovers the secret history of Puritan purges; introduces diet gurus of the nineteenth century, such as William Alcott, who believed that Ònothing ought to be mashed before it is eatenÓ; traces extreme feeders from Paul Bunyan to eating-contest champ Dale Boone (descended from Daniel, of course); and investigates our blithe efforts to re-create plants and animals that we’ve eaten to the point of extinction.
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- Bookseller
- Endless Shores Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66380
- Title
- A Short History of the American Stomach
- Author
- Frederick Kaufman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 015101194X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011940
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2008
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History;
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