Food Nations Selling Taste in Consumer Societies [Hardcover]

This original collection abandons culinary nostalgia and the cataloguing of regional cuisines to examine the role of food and food marketing in constructing culture, consumer behavior, and national identity.Warren Belascois Professor of American Studies at University of Maryland and one of the leading scholars in food studies. He is the author of Appetite for Change:How the Counterculture Took on the FoodIndustry.

Philip Scrantonis the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University and research director at the Hagley Museum and Library. He is the author or editor of six books, including EndlessNovelty: Specialty Production and AmericanIndustrialization.