Title Discriminating taste : how class anxiety created the American food revolution / S. Margot Finn.

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New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

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Description	1 online resource (vii, 275 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Print version record.
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.
Subject	Food habits -- United States -- History.
	Food habits -- Economic aspects -- United States.
	Food consumption -- United States -- History.
	Food consumption -- Economic aspects -- United States.
	Food -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Middle class -- United States -- Social life and customs.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Food Science.
	Food consumption. (OCoLC)fst00930721
	Food consumption -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst00930725
	Food habits. (OCoLC)fst00930807
	Food habits -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst00930810
	Food -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00930613
	Middle class -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst01020467
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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 bk.)
	0813576881 (electronic bk.)
	9780813576879 (electronic book)
	0813576873 (electronic book)

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