Open AccessBook Review: Food in America: The Past, Present and Future of Food, Farming and the Family Meal
Author(s) -
Amanda Babirad
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.57.1.6456
Subject(s) - theme (computing) , context (archaeology) , politics , agriculture , set (abstract data type) , section (typography) , political science , history , advertising , law , business , computer science , archaeology , programming language , operating system
This three-volume set explores the landscape of America in the context of food. The author describes this set as an introduction to thirty current food controversies for undergraduates and general readers. The volumes are divided into three themes: the environment, health and nutrition, and the economy. Each volume is further divided into sections offering a rich history of the given theme, controversies surrounding key issues, and perhaps most interesting, a section of primary source documents highlighting landmark cases that frame each theme in a political and social context.