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Eating in Eden: food and American utopias

Etta M. Madden and Martha L. Finch c2006 © University of Nebraska Press
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  • 9780803256446 (ebook)
  • 9780803232518 (hardcover)
  • 9780803217973 (paper)
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  • Religion
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Introduction (Etta M. Madden and Martha L. Finch, page 1)
  • PART I . NEW WORLD UTOPIAS: Cultivating Immigrant Identities through Food (page 33)
    • 1. Pinched with Hunger, Partaking of Plenty: Fasts and Thanksgivings in Early New England (Martha L. Finch, page 35)
    • 2. Faith, Flatulence, and Fandangos in the Spanish-American Borderlands (Phillip H. Round, page 54)
    • 3. An Appetite for America: Philip Roth's Antipastorals (Debra Shostak, page 74)
    • 4. You Are Where You Eat: Negotiating Hindu Utopias in Atlanta (Kathryn McClymond, page 89)
  • PART II . COMMUNAL UTOPIAS: Eating In, but Not Of, the World (page 107)
    • 5. Kitchen Sisters and Disagreeable Boys: Debates over Meatless Diets in Nineteenth-Century Shaker Communities (Margaret Puskar-Pasewicz, page 109)
    • 6. Strawberries and Cream: Food, Sex, and Gender at the Oneida Community (Wendy E. Chmielewski, page 125)
    • 7. Food and Social Relations in Communal and Capitalist Amana (Jonathan G. Andelson, page 143)
    • 8. Recipes for a New World: Utopianism and Alternative Eating in Vegetarian Natural-Foods Cookbooks, 1970-84 (Maria McGrath, page 162)
  • PART III . STRATEGIC UTOPIAS: Cooking Up Values for a New World (page 185)
    • 9. "This Fatal Cake": The Ideals and Realities of Republican Virtue in Eighteenth-Century America (Trudy Eden, page 187)
    • 10. "The Chafing Dish and the College Girl": The Evolution and Meaning of the "Spread" at Northern Women's Colleges, 1870-1910 (Priscilla J. Brewer, page 203)
    • 11. Revolution in a Can: Food, Class, and Radicalism in the Minneapolis Co-op Wars of the 1970s (Mary Rizzo, page 220)
    • 12. Veggieburger in Paradise: Food as World Transformer in Contemporary American Buddhism and Judaism (Ellen Posman, page 239)
    • 13. The Pixel Chef: PBS Television Cooking Shows and Sensorial Utopias (Monica Mak, page 258)
  • Contributors (page 275)
  • Index (page 279)
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CH 76.2 (Jun. 2007): 456-458 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27645014
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