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Inventing baby food : taste, health, and the industrialization of the American diet /

Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity-and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regarding health. In this groundbreaking historical work, Amy Bentley explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bentley, Amy, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Series:California studies in food and culture ; 51.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1890s to 1930s: industrial food, industrial baby food
  • Shifting child-rearing philosophies and early solids: the golden age of baby food at mid-century
  • 1960s to1970s: industrialization, taste, and its discontents
  • 1970s to1990s: natural food, natural motherhood, and the turn toward homemade
  • Reinventing food for babies in the twenty-first century.