How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century Volume 48

by Katherine Leonard Turner

Book Overview

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neighborhoods, and the tools, utilities, and size of their kitchens--along with their cultural heritage. How the Other Half Ate is a deep exploration by historian and lecturer Katherine Turner that delivers an unprecedented and thoroughly researched study of the changing food landscape in American working-class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520277589
• ISBN13: 9780520277588
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"