"Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning" ed. by Kathleen Lebesco, Peter Naccarato

Authors explore the relationship between food and the production of ideology: ten chapters explore how various modes of representation, reflecting prevailing attitudes and assumptions about food and food practices, function to circulate and transgress dominant cultural ideologies.

Readers will encounter World War I propaganda, holocaust and Sephardic cookbooks, the Rosenbergs, German tour guides, fast-food advertising, food packaging, and chocolate

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Men and Menus: Dickens and the Rise of the “Ordinary” English Gentleman
CHAPTER 2 “Food Will Win the War”: Food and Social Control in World War I Propaganda
CHAPTER 3 Cooking In Memory’s Kitchen: Re-Presenting Recipes, Remembering the Holocaust
CHAPTER 4 “More than one million mothers know it’s the REAL thing”: The Rosenbergs, Jell-O, Old-Fashioned Gefilte Fish, and 1950s America
CHAPTER 5 Cooking the Books: Jewish Cuisine and the Commodification of Difference
CHAPTER 6 Typisch Deutsch: Culinary Tourism and the Presentation of German Food in English-Language Travel Guides
CHAPTER 7 The Embodied Rhetoric of “Health” from Farm Fields to Salad Bowls
CHAPTER 8 Consuming the Other: Packaged Representations of Foreignness in President’s Choice
CHAPTER 9 From Romance to PMS: Images of Women and Chocolate in Twentieth-Century America
CHAPTER 10 Julia Child, Martha Stewart, and the Rise of Culinary Capital
Contributors
Index