Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet

by Harvey Levenstein

Book Overview

For most Americans in the 19th century, it wasn't what you ate, but how much you ate, that mattered. Late in the century, doctors wrote books like How To Be Plumb and the voluptuous woman was the ideal. The famed actress Lillian Russell, considered by many the epitome of beauty, weighed almost two hundred pounds. Today, in contrast, Americans seem obsessed with calories, diets and slimness, and with eating healthful amounts of vitamins, minerals,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195043650
• ISBN13: 9780195043655
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Thorough, and very interesting.

Good book, well researched. It contains the most in-depth history of the Boston Cooking School that I have found.

Great!

I loved this book, well researched. I wish it had gone into more depth.