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CULTURAL STUDIES L e B edible ideologies e s c representing food & meaning o & N Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato, editors a c c a r a Edible Ideologies argues that representations of food—in literature and t popular fiction, cookbooks and travel guides, war propaganda, women’s magazines, o television and print advertisements—are not just about nourishment or pleasure. Contributors explore how these various modes of representation, reflecting prevailing attitudes and assumptions about food and food practices, function instead to circulate and transgress dominant cultural ideologies. e Addressing questions concerning “This is a solid intervention in d whose interests are served by a contemporary debates about food and particular food practice or habit and representation in the Anglo-American i b what political ends are fulfilled by world. The essays are historically rich, l the historical changes that lead from theoretically engaging, and unpredictable e one practice to another in Western enough to be immensely readable. Who culture, the essays offer a rich knew that a box of Jell-O would do so i much harm to Ethel Rosenberg’s case?!” d historical narrative that moves from e the construction of the nineteenth- — Krishnendu Ray, author of century English gentleman to the o The Migrant’s Table: creation of two of today’s iconic Meals and Memories in l Bengali-American Households o figures in food culture, Julia Child g and Martha Stewart. Along the way, 1 readers will encounter World War I i 1 e propaganda, Holocaust and Sephardic cookbooks, the Rosenbergs, German tour 1 s 5 guides, fast food advertising, food packaging, and chocolate, and will find food for 4 2 thought on the meanings of everything from camembert to Velveeta, from salads - PoRt ofre odbEfeuefinrsnggsoeeli rrsFAs h,oa .tat f nLIMCddee oBafnmrretyoismmtmcyou.o ’tsnui kinpcktra aetM vimoionaau nsAsah lrabatt ostt,oao nak Cn s Cdaim noPclpleleubtgedeerlel, ’NsRK saeoacvutcohpallt.reianetgno BLisoe dABiesesss?oc cThoi aeits e S AtPrrsuosgofgeclsiesa otteor S LeBesco PMS 7488 U B l N a Y c k State University of New York Press • www.sunypress.edu K Y M C EDIBLE IDEOLOGIES Edible Ideologies Representing Food and Meaning Edited by Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS Publishedby StateUniversityofNewYorkPress,Albany ©2008StateUniversityofNewYork Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Nopartofthisbookmaybeusedorreproduced inanymannerwhatsoeverwithoutwrittenpermission. Nopartofthisbookmaybestoredinaretrievalsystem ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeansincluding electronic,electrostatic,magnetictape,mechanical, photocopying,recording,orotherwisewithouttheprior permissioninwritingofthepublisher. Forinformation,contactStateUniversityofNewYorkPress,Albany,NY www.sunypress.edu ProductionbyKelliW.LeRoux MarketingbyAnneM.Valentine Photo/illustrationcredits:Figure9.2—reproducedwiththepermissionof NormanRockwellFamilyAgency,Inc.;Figure9.3—reproducedwiththe permissionofTransHighCorporation LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Edibleideologies:representingfoodandmeaning/editedby:Kathleen LeBesco,PeterNaccarato. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-7914-7287-3(hardcover:alk.paper)— ISBN 978-0-7914-7288-0(pbk.:alk.paper) 1. Food—History.2. Food—Socialaspects. I.LeBesco,Kathleen,1970–II.Naccarato,Peter, 1970– TX353.E352008 641.3—dc22 2007007754 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Fede Mauro Naccarato and Brooks LaRose, our grandparents, perched on whose windowsills and countertops we learned to love food “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” —Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own