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1 online resource (vii, 275 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction. Discriminating Taste; 1. Incompatible Standards. The Four Ideals of the Food Revolution; 2. Aspirational Eating. Food and Status Anxiety in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era; 3. No Culinary Enlightenment. Why Everything You Know about Food Is Wrong; 4. Anyone Can Cook. Saying Yes to Meritocracy; 5. Just Mustard. Negotiating with Food Snobbery; 6. Feeling Good about Where You Shop. Sacrifice, Pleasure, and Virtue; Conclusion. Confronting the Soft Bigotry of Taste; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; About the Author |
Summary |
A provocative look at contemporary food culture, Discriminating Taste critically examines cultural touchstones from Ratatouille to The Biggest Loser, identifying how ""good food"" is conflated with high status. Drawing historical parallels with the Gilded Age, Margot Finn argues that the rise of gourmet, ethnic, diet, and organic foods must be understood in tandem with the ever-widening income inequality gap. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Food habits -- United States -- History.
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Food habits. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Food habits -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Food habits -- Economic aspects. |
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Food consumption -- United States -- History.
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Food consumption. |
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Food consumption -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Food consumption -- Economic aspects. |
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Food -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Food -- Social aspects. |
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Middle class -- United States -- Social life and customs.
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Middle class. |
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Manners and customs. |
Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Finn, S. Margot, 1981- Discriminating taste. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017] 9780813576862 (DLC) 2016025795 (OCoLC)959034427 |
ISBN |
9780813576886 (electronic book) |
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0813576881 (electronic book) |
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9780813576862 |
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0813576865 |
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9780813576855 |
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0813576857 |
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9780813576879 electronic book |
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