Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity—and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regardin

Explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of infancy and influenced the evolution of parental and pediatric care. Simultaneous

Mandatory food rationing during World War II significantly challenged the image of the United States as a land of plenty and collapsed the boundaries between wo

Do you know what happened when a kid forgot his glass of soda with a stir stick in it outside on a freezing cold night? Popsicles were invented! And did you kno

In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930.