Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet Volume 51

by Amy Bentley

Book Overview

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. In this groundbreaking historical work, Amy Bentley explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of infancy and influenced the evolution of parental and pediatric care.

Until the late nineteenth century, infants were almost exclusively fed breast...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520283457
• ISBN13: 9780520283459
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"