Inventing Baby Food by Amy Bentley
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. This book explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of infancy and influenced the evolution of parental and pediatric care.
"Bentley, author of Eating for Victory, has meticulously scoured the literature on infant nutrition and presented a very fluid, flowing, and engrossing account of the history of baby food over the past century" -- R. A. Hoots CHOICE "An important testimony to the multifaceted processes that shape why Americans buy what they buy. Inventing Baby Food is a welcome addition to the study of American cultural history." Journal of American History "Meticulously researched with sources ranging from company advertisements to industry statistics, Inventing Baby Food makes important contributions to American cultural history and the histories of business, consumerism, and food culture." -- Deirdre Clemente Journal of American History "An exciting contribution to food studies and cultural studies." Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies
Amy Bentley is Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She is the author of Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity and the editor of A Cultural History of Food in the Modern Era.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520277373 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520277376 |
| Title | Inventing Baby Food |
| Author | Amy Bentley |
| Series | California Studies In Food And Culture |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2014-09-19 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for James Beard Foundation Book Awards (Reference) 2015 |
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