Food, Power, and Agency.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Food, Power, and Agency -- Notes -- Part One National characters -- 1 The power of food: Immigrant German restaurants in San Francisco and the formation of ethnic identities* -- Eating German in San Francisco -- Ethnicity, cuisine, and restaurants among German immigrants in San Francisco -- German "specials" at the Heidelberg Inn and the Bismarck Café -- Spatial dynamics -- Between the "Star-Spangled Banner" and "Die Wacht am Rhein": Music at German restaurants -- Transitioning into the mainstream: From the Hof Bräu Café to the States Restaurant -- The power of food-the power of malleability -- Notes -- 2 Italian cuisine in Japan and the power of networking among cooks -- Italian cuisine at home and away -- Italian cuisine and Japan -- The Napoli pizza and the pizzaiolo -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Part Two Anthropological situations -- 3 Waiters, writers, and power: From dining room commanders to the emotional proletariat -- Agency and the "factotum" -- In the shadow of the waitress -- Orwell, Sartre, and the age of the open kitchen -- In command: African American waiters, 1904 -- Restaurant struggles -- Notes -- 4 The geography of silence: Food and tragedy in globalizing America -- Notes -- Part Three Health -- 5 Making food matter: "Scientific eating" and the struggle for healthy selves -- "Hydropathic pudding is positively awful": Scientific eating in Battle Creek and elsewhere -- "Had very bad night. Also had ½ cake Hershey's almond chocolate": Eating and writing as technologies of the self -- The agency of apple pie à la mode -- Notes -- 6 "What diet can do": Running and eating right in 1970s America -- Introduction -- Some preliminary remarks on Runner's World and the meaning of running -- Eating right in everyday life.

Eating right before a race -- Drinking right during a race -- "The good, the bad, and the edible" -- Notes -- 7 Being too big-as deviance from the societal order -- Ways of exerting of power -- Why the concept of stigmatization is insufficient -- Social order and its legitimation: A theoretical framework -- The research project: Relatively big youth -- Big rock candy mountain: An "inverse" world -- The proverbial land where milk and honey flow -- The "inverse" for the "real" world -- Power of legitimate orders -- Notes -- 8 When the grease runs through the paper: On the consumption of ultragreasy bureks -- Before the paper gets greasy -- Greasy junk food -- When the grease runs through the paper -- So that the paper will be more than just greasy -- Conclusion or a few more greasy stains -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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