American Appetites : A Documentary Reader.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 - Foundational Food -- The Arapaho Learn How to Hunt Buffalo -- The Iroquois Learn to Grow Beans, Corn, and Squash Together -- Spanish Explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado Encounters Pueblo Food, 1540 -- Athanase de Mézières Describes Wichita Food Habits in Eighteenth-Century Texas -- Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz Describes the Food of Eighteenth-Century Louisiana -- Engravings by Jacques Le Moyne de Morques Depict Native American Subsistence Strategies in Sixteenth-Century Florida -- 2 - Colonial Culinary Encounters -- Englishman John Gerarde Evaluates the Nutritional Value of Maize, 1597 -- Olaudah Equiano Describes the Food of Seventeenth-Century Igbo -- Alexander Falconbridge Describes the Food of the Middle Passage -- Colonial Advertisement Offering Slaves for Sale Who Had Experience Cultivating Rice -- Wahunsonacock Advises the English Residents of Jamestown Not to Steal Food from Native Americans -- Captain John Smith Describes the Starving Time of 1609-1610 -- The Colonists at Plimoth Plantation Celebrate Their 1621 Harvest -- Massachusetts Colonist Mary Rowlandson Describes the Food Eaten by the Algonquin Who Held Her Captive in 1675 and 1676 -- An Indentured Servant in Virginia Begs His Parents for Food, 1623 -- 3 - Developing a National Cuisine -- Cotton Mather Describes Religious Fasting, 1683 -- Changing Fireplace Technology -- Sarah Kemble Knight Describes Dining During a 1704 Journey from Boston to New Haven -- Cartoon Depicting Colonial Response to the British Tax on Tea, 1774 -- New York Coffeehouse, 1797 -- Excerpts from the First American Cookbook -- Benjamin Franklin Gives Advice about Eating and Drinking in Poor Richard's Almanack.

Thomas Jefferson Requests American Food while Living in France -- Kitchen Inventory at Monticello Created by James Hemings -- In a Letter to James Monroe, James Madison Reacts to Diplomatic Scandal over Dining Etiquette -- 4 - Nineteenth-Century Expansion -- Lydia Maria Child Advises American Women, 1832 -- Memoir of a Wagon Train to California, 1849 -- Cowboys Eating on the Range -- Song about John Chinaman, 1850s -- Laguna Pueblo Women Grinding Corn -- Rose Wilder Lane's Memoir of Life in the West, 1880s -- 5 - Foodways during Enslavement and War -- Recipes and Advice for Southern Cooks, 1824 -- Frederick Douglass Recalls Childhood Hunger, 1845 -- Harriet Jacobs's Memoir, 1861 -- Diary of a Soldier from Illinois, 1862 -- Bread Riot in Richmond, 1863 -- Lincoln Declares a Day of National Thanksgiving, 1863 -- Union Officers Dining in the Field, 1864 -- Recipes and Counsel for Southern Women after the War, 1867 -- 6 - Eating in an Age of Decadence and Empire -- Criticism of Conspicuous Consumption, 1903 -- Dinner Party Etiquette in 1877 -- The Nation Magazine Comments on the "Servant Problem" -- Dinner at Delmonico's -- Advice on How to Achieve the Ideal Body Type in the Nineteenth Century -- Lillian Russell: A Nineteenth-Century Beauty -- Italian Foodways Expand the American Palate -- Jewish Immigrants Import Kosher Food Practices -- Food Vendors in New York City -- Captain Frank N. Moore Testifies about the Quality of Military Food Supplies during the Spanish American War -- Taft Banquet Highlights US Imperial Interests -- 7 - Food and Social Reform in the Progressive Era -- John Harvey Kellogg Gives Dietary Advice to Adolescent Girls -- Upton Sinclair Publicizes Unsanitary Conditions in Meat-Processing Facilities -- A Multiethnic Dinner Party in the Age of Immigration.

Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe Advocate for the Training of Housewives -- Pearl Idelia Ellis Argues that Dietary Reform Can Aid in Assimilation and End Crime -- A Cooking Class at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1901 -- Mary Hinman Abel Creates Recipes for the Economically Disadvantaged -- New York City Tenement Kitchen Doubles as a Home Workshop in 1911 -- The US Food Administration Asks for Voluntary Food Conservation during World War I -- The Federal Government Equates Food Behavior with Military Behavior during World War I -- 8 - From Prohibition to the Great Depression -- Migration and Memories of Food -- Bemoaning the Approach of Prohibition, 1917 -- Raid on Alcohol, Early 1920s -- Anti-Saloon League Program, 1937 -- Difficulty Finding Tenants -- Family Praying over Meal by Roadside, 1939 -- Children Return to School Hoping for Free Lunch, 1939 -- Rural Electrification Agency Improves Kitchens, 1930s-1940s -- Ethnic Grocery Store in Houston -- 9 - Wartime Food and Postwar Consumption -- Freedom from Want, 1941 -- Wartime Rationing, 1943 -- American Culinary Encounter, 1942 -- Eating in an Internment Camp, 1942 -- George C. Marshall on Hunger in Europe, 1947 -- Nutritional Recommendations, 1940s-1950s -- New Appliances, 1950s -- Condiment Production -- Convenience Food Recipes, 1950s -- Kitchen Debate, 1959 -- 10 - Politics, Protest, and Food -- Desegregating Eating Establishments in Arkansas, 1960s -- Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, 1960s -- The Diggers' Free City, 1968 -- Menus from the Kennedy and Johnson White Houses, 1962 and 1964 -- Nixon in China, 1972 -- Senate Diet Hearings, 1973 -- 11 - Contemporary Food Issues -- Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 1980 and 1995 -- The US Department of Agriculture Develops Educational Icons to Give Dietary Advice.

The US Department of Agriculture Certifies Some Food as Organic -- The Federal Government Justifies Providing Subsistence for the Nation's Poorest Citizens -- Let's Move! Factsheet -- James McWilliams Advocates for Meatless Hot Dogs -- A. Breeze Harper Urges the Food Movement to Be Sensitive to Issues of Race and Class -- For Further Reading -- Index.

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