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Modern food came from and helped to create a society based on racial hierarchies, colonization, and global integration. \u003ci\u003eAcquired Tastes\u003c\/i\u003e explores these themes through a series of moments in food history--stories of bread, beer, sugar, canned food, cereal, bananas, and more--that shaped how we think about food today.\u003cbr\u003e Contributors consider the displacement of native peoples for agricultural development; the invention of Pilsner, the first international beer style; the long con of gilded sugar and corn syrup; Josephine Baker's banana skirt and the rise of celebrity tastemakers; and faith in institutions and experts who produced, among other things, food rankings and fake meat.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49740646547729,"sku":"NGR9780262542913","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51259993719057,"sku":"GOR011962533","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262542919.jpg?v=1751389134"},{"product_id":"pure-adulteration-book-benjamin-r-cohen-9780226816746","title":"Pure Adulteration","description":"Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades at the turn of the twentieth century to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods in the United States.   In the latter nineteenth century, extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood, obtained, trusted, and ate their food. This was the Era of Adulteration, and its concerns have carried forward to today: How could you tell the food you bought was the food you thought you bought? Could something manufactured still be pure? Is it okay to manipulate nature far enough to produce new foods but not so far that you question its safety and health? How do you know where the line is? And who decides?     In Pure Adulteration, Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods and the perceived problems they wrought. Cohen follows farmers, manufacturers, grocers, hucksters, housewives, politicians, and scientific analysts as they struggled to demarcate and patrol the ever-contingent, always contested border between purity and adulteration, and as, at the end of the nineteenth century, the very notion of a pure food changed.     In the end, there is (and was) no natural, prehuman distinction between pure and adulterated to uncover and enforce; we have to decide. Today’s world is different from that of our nineteenth-century forebears in many ways, but the challenge of policing the difference between acceptable and unacceptable practices remains central to daily decisions about the foods we eat, how we produce them, and what choices we make when buying them.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742669611281,"sku":"NGR9780226816746","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50148947296529,"sku":"GOR013870934","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50151615430929,"sku":"CIN0226816745G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000290967825,"sku":"NIN9780226816746","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52888708481297,"sku":"CIN0226816745LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226816745.jpg?v=1751323122"},{"product_id":"notes-from-the-ground-book-benjamin-r-cohen-9780300139235","title":"Notes from the Ground","description":"\"Notes from the Ground\" examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in nineteenth-century America. 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By detailing the changing perceptions of soil treatment, Benjamin Cohen shows that the credibility of new soil practices grew not from the arrival of professional chemists, but out of an existing ideology of work, knowledge, and citizenship.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50348007948561,"sku":"CIN0300139233G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300139233.jpg?v=1751164340"},{"product_id":"notes-from-the-ground-book-benjamin-r-cohen-9780300177701","title":"Notes from the Ground","description":"Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, this book shows how and why agrarian Americans - yeoman farmers, gentleman planters, politicians, and policy makers alike - accepted, resisted, and shaped scientific ways of knowing the land.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52667184513297,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52667185168657,"sku":"NLS9780300177701","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780300177701.jpg?v=1762281916"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-benjamin-r-cohen.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}