Author: Donald Altman
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1577317505
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Meal by Meal is a book of comfort, guidance, and insight for anyone with an unhealthy relationship with food. Its power is in its approach: each day is a self-contained journey of conscious eating to help people nurture new and sustainable attitudes and practices. Although bad habits cannot be changed overnight, the author — Buddhist devotee Donald Altman — shows how to find peace by focusing on food issues one meal at a time. He shares inspirational daily meditations, including quotes from Zen stories, Native American practices, Hindu scriptures, the Bible, and sages from all major wisdom traditions. He also explores food preparation, rituals, and social attitudes and examines questions like "How can we learn that eating is not a pleasure race, but an area to find grace?" and "How can we stop using food to fill ourselves up, and instead use it to fulfill ourselves?" Through daily reflections, Altman enables people to make wise food choices and create balance in their lives.
Meal by Meal
Author: Donald Altman
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1577317505
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Meal by Meal is a book of comfort, guidance, and insight for anyone with an unhealthy relationship with food. Its power is in its approach: each day is a self-contained journey of conscious eating to help people nurture new and sustainable attitudes and practices. Although bad habits cannot be changed overnight, the author — Buddhist devotee Donald Altman — shows how to find peace by focusing on food issues one meal at a time. He shares inspirational daily meditations, including quotes from Zen stories, Native American practices, Hindu scriptures, the Bible, and sages from all major wisdom traditions. He also explores food preparation, rituals, and social attitudes and examines questions like "How can we learn that eating is not a pleasure race, but an area to find grace?" and "How can we stop using food to fill ourselves up, and instead use it to fulfill ourselves?" Through daily reflections, Altman enables people to make wise food choices and create balance in their lives.
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1577317505
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Meal by Meal is a book of comfort, guidance, and insight for anyone with an unhealthy relationship with food. Its power is in its approach: each day is a self-contained journey of conscious eating to help people nurture new and sustainable attitudes and practices. Although bad habits cannot be changed overnight, the author — Buddhist devotee Donald Altman — shows how to find peace by focusing on food issues one meal at a time. He shares inspirational daily meditations, including quotes from Zen stories, Native American practices, Hindu scriptures, the Bible, and sages from all major wisdom traditions. He also explores food preparation, rituals, and social attitudes and examines questions like "How can we learn that eating is not a pleasure race, but an area to find grace?" and "How can we stop using food to fill ourselves up, and instead use it to fulfill ourselves?" Through daily reflections, Altman enables people to make wise food choices and create balance in their lives.
Stress-Free Family Meal Planning
Author: Kristen McCaffrey
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 1645670236
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Cook Smarter, Not Harder Things can get a little hectic when you have a whole house of hungry mouths to feed, but Stress-Free Family Meal Planning helps you put affordable, flavorful food on the table in a flash. Kristen McCaffrey, founder of Slender Kitchen, has crafted this simple, comprehensive guide—including a month’s worth of meal plans and grocery lists—to make your meals quick and healthy. Each recipe is full of satisfying, real foods like fresh veggies, whole grains, healthy fats, natural sweeteners, and lean proteins. And with modifications for every recipe to accommodate your picky eaters, no one will be able to resist. Recipes include: • Slow Cooker Four-Veggie Lasagna • Cheddar-Apple Chicken Burgers • Crispy Coconut Chicken Strips • Sheet-Pan Pesto Meatballs • Ham, Cheese, and Zucchini Breakfast Quesadillas • Broiled Barbecue Flank Steak with Mango Salsa • Turkey Sausage and Tortellini Soup Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, this book will show you just how fast, tasty and inexpensive a homemade meal can be.
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 1645670236
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Cook Smarter, Not Harder Things can get a little hectic when you have a whole house of hungry mouths to feed, but Stress-Free Family Meal Planning helps you put affordable, flavorful food on the table in a flash. Kristen McCaffrey, founder of Slender Kitchen, has crafted this simple, comprehensive guide—including a month’s worth of meal plans and grocery lists—to make your meals quick and healthy. Each recipe is full of satisfying, real foods like fresh veggies, whole grains, healthy fats, natural sweeteners, and lean proteins. And with modifications for every recipe to accommodate your picky eaters, no one will be able to resist. Recipes include: • Slow Cooker Four-Veggie Lasagna • Cheddar-Apple Chicken Burgers • Crispy Coconut Chicken Strips • Sheet-Pan Pesto Meatballs • Ham, Cheese, and Zucchini Breakfast Quesadillas • Broiled Barbecue Flank Steak with Mango Salsa • Turkey Sausage and Tortellini Soup Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, this book will show you just how fast, tasty and inexpensive a homemade meal can be.
Mix-and-Match Meal Planner
Author: Shay Shull
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736966110
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Wondering how you'll ever get dinner on the table? Mix and Match Mama is here to help! Popular blogger Shay Shull knows that to feed her busy family of five, she needs a plan, exact recipes, a solid grocery list, and a well-stocked pantry. Because cooking isn't hard; it's deciding what to make that's a challenge. In Mix-and-Match Meal Planner, Shay provides eight weeks' worth of simple meals (plus lots of sweet treats!). The meal plans change by the season, never have lengthy directions or hard-to-find ingredients, and don't take a long time to prepare. They're perfect weeknight meals! Nothing complicated, nothing time-consuming—just good, solid dinner recipes to help busy women like you get supper on the table.
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736966110
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Wondering how you'll ever get dinner on the table? Mix and Match Mama is here to help! Popular blogger Shay Shull knows that to feed her busy family of five, she needs a plan, exact recipes, a solid grocery list, and a well-stocked pantry. Because cooking isn't hard; it's deciding what to make that's a challenge. In Mix-and-Match Meal Planner, Shay provides eight weeks' worth of simple meals (plus lots of sweet treats!). The meal plans change by the season, never have lengthy directions or hard-to-find ingredients, and don't take a long time to prepare. They're perfect weeknight meals! Nothing complicated, nothing time-consuming—just good, solid dinner recipes to help busy women like you get supper on the table.
A Decent Meal
Author: Michael Carolan
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503629546
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
A poignant look at empathetic encounters between staunch ideological rivals, all centered around our common need for food. While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or social divisiveness be healed? Is empathy among people with very little ideological common ground possible? In A Decent Meal, Michael Carolan finds answers to these fundamental questions in a series of unexpected places: around our dinner tables, along the aisles of our supermarkets, and in the fields growing our fruits and vegetables. What is more common, after all, than the simple fact that we all need to eat? This book is the result of Carolan's career-long efforts to create simulations in which food could be used to build empathy, among even the staunchest of rivals. Though most people assume that presenting facts will sway the way the public behaves, time and again this assumption is proven wrong as we all selectively accept the facts that support our beliefs. Drawing on the data he has collected, Carolan argues that we must, instead, find places and practices where incivility—or worse, hate—is suspended and leverage those opportunities into tools for building social cohesion. Each chapter follows the individuals who participated in a given experiment, ranging from strawberry-picking, attempting to subsist on SNAP benefits, or attending a dinner of wild game. By engaging with participants before, during, and after, Carolan is able to document their remarkable shifts in attitude and opinion. Though this book is framed around food, it is really about the spaces opened up by our need for food, in our communities, in our homes, and, ultimately, in our minds.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503629546
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
A poignant look at empathetic encounters between staunch ideological rivals, all centered around our common need for food. While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or social divisiveness be healed? Is empathy among people with very little ideological common ground possible? In A Decent Meal, Michael Carolan finds answers to these fundamental questions in a series of unexpected places: around our dinner tables, along the aisles of our supermarkets, and in the fields growing our fruits and vegetables. What is more common, after all, than the simple fact that we all need to eat? This book is the result of Carolan's career-long efforts to create simulations in which food could be used to build empathy, among even the staunchest of rivals. Though most people assume that presenting facts will sway the way the public behaves, time and again this assumption is proven wrong as we all selectively accept the facts that support our beliefs. Drawing on the data he has collected, Carolan argues that we must, instead, find places and practices where incivility—or worse, hate—is suspended and leverage those opportunities into tools for building social cohesion. Each chapter follows the individuals who participated in a given experiment, ranging from strawberry-picking, attempting to subsist on SNAP benefits, or attending a dinner of wild game. By engaging with participants before, during, and after, Carolan is able to document their remarkable shifts in attitude and opinion. Though this book is framed around food, it is really about the spaces opened up by our need for food, in our communities, in our homes, and, ultimately, in our minds.
Cook Once, Eat All Week
Author: Cassy Joy Garcia
Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing
ISBN: 1628603437
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Cook Once, Eat All Week is a revolutionary way to get a delicious, healthy, and affordable dinner on the table FAST. Author Cassy Joy Garcia will walk you through this tried-and-true method and show you how batch-cooking a few basic components can give you an entire week’s worth of dinners with minimal time and effort. Have you ever tried a meal prep plan before and gotten so excited about having your cooking for the week done ahead of time, only to find yourself totally exhausted after a full day in the kitchen, shocked by your grocery bill, and tired of the same leftovers by Tuesday? Cassy Joy Garcia had been there, too. As a mom, business owner, and Nutrition Consultant, she needed to get a healthy, affordable, and tasty dinner on the table fast every night, and she knew there had to be a better way to do it. She finally cracked the code when she discovered that by batch-cooking a protein, starch, and vegetable each week she could easily assemble three fresh, diverse meals in minimal time. After years of her readers asking her for better meal prep strategies and easy recipes, she released 4 weeks of recipes on her blog, Fed and Fit. Since then, tens of thousands of people have made and raved about the series and begged for more! In this book, you’ll find 26 weeks of affordable, healthy, delicious meals that your family will love eating, and a chapter full of bonus 20-minute meals. Optional Instant Pot and slow cooker instructions are included to get you even more time back in your week. With a Real Food foundation, the weeks in this book aim to support dietary approaches that cover gluten-free, dairy-free, Paleo, low-carb, egg-free, kid-friendly, and more. Three simple ingredients like shredded pork, potatoes, and cabbage are turned into these three easy-to-assemble meals: Honey Mustard Pork Sheet Pan Dinner, Enchiladas Verde Casserole, and Sloppy Joe Stuffed Potatoes. This book is a must-have for anyone looking for a REAL solution to help them eat healthfully while also saving time and money and loving what they are eating.
Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing
ISBN: 1628603437
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Cook Once, Eat All Week is a revolutionary way to get a delicious, healthy, and affordable dinner on the table FAST. Author Cassy Joy Garcia will walk you through this tried-and-true method and show you how batch-cooking a few basic components can give you an entire week’s worth of dinners with minimal time and effort. Have you ever tried a meal prep plan before and gotten so excited about having your cooking for the week done ahead of time, only to find yourself totally exhausted after a full day in the kitchen, shocked by your grocery bill, and tired of the same leftovers by Tuesday? Cassy Joy Garcia had been there, too. As a mom, business owner, and Nutrition Consultant, she needed to get a healthy, affordable, and tasty dinner on the table fast every night, and she knew there had to be a better way to do it. She finally cracked the code when she discovered that by batch-cooking a protein, starch, and vegetable each week she could easily assemble three fresh, diverse meals in minimal time. After years of her readers asking her for better meal prep strategies and easy recipes, she released 4 weeks of recipes on her blog, Fed and Fit. Since then, tens of thousands of people have made and raved about the series and begged for more! In this book, you’ll find 26 weeks of affordable, healthy, delicious meals that your family will love eating, and a chapter full of bonus 20-minute meals. Optional Instant Pot and slow cooker instructions are included to get you even more time back in your week. With a Real Food foundation, the weeks in this book aim to support dietary approaches that cover gluten-free, dairy-free, Paleo, low-carb, egg-free, kid-friendly, and more. Three simple ingredients like shredded pork, potatoes, and cabbage are turned into these three easy-to-assemble meals: Honey Mustard Pork Sheet Pan Dinner, Enchiladas Verde Casserole, and Sloppy Joe Stuffed Potatoes. This book is a must-have for anyone looking for a REAL solution to help them eat healthfully while also saving time and money and loving what they are eating.
A Square Meal
Author: Jane Ziegelman
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062216430
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced—the Great Depression—and how it transformed America’s culinary culture. The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country’s political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929, America’s relationship with food was defined by abundance. But the collapse of the economy, in both urban and rural America, left a quarter of all Americans out of work and undernourished—shattering long-held assumptions about the limitlessness of the national larder. In 1933, as women struggled to feed their families, President Roosevelt reversed long-standing biases toward government-sponsored “food charity.” For the first time in American history, the federal government assumed, for a while, responsibility for feeding its citizens. The effects were widespread. Championed by Eleanor Roosevelt, “home economists” who had long fought to bring science into the kitchen rose to national stature. Tapping into America’s long-standing ambivalence toward culinary enjoyment, they imposed their vision of a sturdy, utilitarian cuisine on the American dinner table. Through the Bureau of Home Economics, these women led a sweeping campaign to instill dietary recommendations, the forerunners of today’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans. At the same time, rising food conglomerates introduced packaged and processed foods that gave rise to a new American cuisine based on speed and convenience. This movement toward a homogenized national cuisine sparked a revival of American regional cooking. In the ensuing decades, the tension between local traditions and culinary science has defined our national cuisine—a battle that continues today. A Square Meal examines the impact of economic contraction and environmental disaster on how Americans ate then—and the lessons and insights those experiences may hold for us today. A Square Meal features 25 black-and-white photographs.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062216430
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced—the Great Depression—and how it transformed America’s culinary culture. The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country’s political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929, America’s relationship with food was defined by abundance. But the collapse of the economy, in both urban and rural America, left a quarter of all Americans out of work and undernourished—shattering long-held assumptions about the limitlessness of the national larder. In 1933, as women struggled to feed their families, President Roosevelt reversed long-standing biases toward government-sponsored “food charity.” For the first time in American history, the federal government assumed, for a while, responsibility for feeding its citizens. The effects were widespread. Championed by Eleanor Roosevelt, “home economists” who had long fought to bring science into the kitchen rose to national stature. Tapping into America’s long-standing ambivalence toward culinary enjoyment, they imposed their vision of a sturdy, utilitarian cuisine on the American dinner table. Through the Bureau of Home Economics, these women led a sweeping campaign to instill dietary recommendations, the forerunners of today’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans. At the same time, rising food conglomerates introduced packaged and processed foods that gave rise to a new American cuisine based on speed and convenience. This movement toward a homogenized national cuisine sparked a revival of American regional cooking. In the ensuing decades, the tension between local traditions and culinary science has defined our national cuisine—a battle that continues today. A Square Meal examines the impact of economic contraction and environmental disaster on how Americans ate then—and the lessons and insights those experiences may hold for us today. A Square Meal features 25 black-and-white photographs.
The Perfect Meal
Author: Charles Spence
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118490827
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
The authors of The Perfect Meal examine all of the elements that contribute to the diners experience of a meal (primarily at a restaurant) and investigate how each of the diners senses contributes to their overall multisensory experience. The principal focus of the book is not on flavor perception, but on all of the non-food and beverage factors that have been shown to influence the diners overall experience. Examples are: the colour of the plate (visual) the shape of the glass (visual/tactile) the names used to describe the dishes (cognitive) the background music playing inside the restaurant (aural) Novel approaches to understanding the diners experience in the restaurant setting are explored from the perspectives of decision neuroscience, marketing, design, and psychology. 2015 Popular Science Prose Award Winner.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118490827
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
The authors of The Perfect Meal examine all of the elements that contribute to the diners experience of a meal (primarily at a restaurant) and investigate how each of the diners senses contributes to their overall multisensory experience. The principal focus of the book is not on flavor perception, but on all of the non-food and beverage factors that have been shown to influence the diners overall experience. Examples are: the colour of the plate (visual) the shape of the glass (visual/tactile) the names used to describe the dishes (cognitive) the background music playing inside the restaurant (aural) Novel approaches to understanding the diners experience in the restaurant setting are explored from the perspectives of decision neuroscience, marketing, design, and psychology. 2015 Popular Science Prose Award Winner.
Meal Prep Meal Planner
Author: Lisa Danielson
Publisher: Rockridge Press
ISBN: 9781647393748
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Save time, energy, and money with this weekly meal planner journal Our hectic schedules can get in the way of enjoying some of life's greatest pleasures--like eating delicious, home-cooked meals. Enter meal prepping; an easy, convenient, and money-saving way to plan out what you'll eat for a week or even longer. Meal Prep Meal Planner is a handy organizer that lets you keep track of your weekly menus, shopping lists, what you already have on hand, and what you need to prep. First, learn about batch prepping and other easy techniques that will save you time. Then, use the meal planner to plan the coming week's meal and prep. Once you find your meal prep groove, you'll find shopping, cooking, and making meals a snap, leaving you more time during the week to do the things you love. The Meal Prep Meal Planner includes: Best practices--Meal Prep 101 gives you the lowdown on simple ways to plan and prep meals efficiently. Week to week--Multiple weekly meal planners inside provide space for you to write in what you are having for breakfast, lunch/snack, and dinner every day of the week, what your prep will be for the week, what meals you've already got banked, and your shopping list. Box it up--Find out about the best food storage containers, simple hacks for labeling, and tips on reheating meals from the fridge and freezer. Master meal planning with the Meal Prep Meal Planner.
Publisher: Rockridge Press
ISBN: 9781647393748
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Save time, energy, and money with this weekly meal planner journal Our hectic schedules can get in the way of enjoying some of life's greatest pleasures--like eating delicious, home-cooked meals. Enter meal prepping; an easy, convenient, and money-saving way to plan out what you'll eat for a week or even longer. Meal Prep Meal Planner is a handy organizer that lets you keep track of your weekly menus, shopping lists, what you already have on hand, and what you need to prep. First, learn about batch prepping and other easy techniques that will save you time. Then, use the meal planner to plan the coming week's meal and prep. Once you find your meal prep groove, you'll find shopping, cooking, and making meals a snap, leaving you more time during the week to do the things you love. The Meal Prep Meal Planner includes: Best practices--Meal Prep 101 gives you the lowdown on simple ways to plan and prep meals efficiently. Week to week--Multiple weekly meal planners inside provide space for you to write in what you are having for breakfast, lunch/snack, and dinner every day of the week, what your prep will be for the week, what meals you've already got banked, and your shopping list. Box it up--Find out about the best food storage containers, simple hacks for labeling, and tips on reheating meals from the fridge and freezer. Master meal planning with the Meal Prep Meal Planner.
21-Day Clean-Eating Meal Plan - 1200 Calories: Healthy Clean Eating Recipes: The 3-Week Weight Loss Cookbook for Beginners
Author: Karla Bro
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781090877031
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Lose Excess Pounds and Eat Healthy with the 21-Day Cleansing Diet PlanEat Clean, Avoid Toxins, and Feel Great This cookbook includes the 3-week meal plan with calories, servings, and prep time for all dishes. It takes a person 21 days to fully form a new habit. That's why we propose you to try 3-week menu of clean eating diet plan.What do we propose you eat for your 3-week menu? Eat well while you diet Spend less time in the kitchen Try out simple and tasty recipes Lose weight without harming your health Weekly meal prep to try clean eating diet There are vegetarian, organic, gluten-free recipes in "21-Day Clean Eating Meal Plan - 1200 Calories." You'll find a detailed menu for five meals per day.Try these delicious dishes: Turkey Muffins with Mashed Potatoes, Peach Rice Bowl with Shrimp Warm Barley Chickpea Tomato Salad, Turkey Rolls with Vegetables Creamy Mashed Potatoes with Cauliflower, Dandelion Leaves Green Salad Buy "21-Day Clean Eating Meal Plan - 1200 Calories" today and change your habits and life immediately!
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781090877031
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Lose Excess Pounds and Eat Healthy with the 21-Day Cleansing Diet PlanEat Clean, Avoid Toxins, and Feel Great This cookbook includes the 3-week meal plan with calories, servings, and prep time for all dishes. It takes a person 21 days to fully form a new habit. That's why we propose you to try 3-week menu of clean eating diet plan.What do we propose you eat for your 3-week menu? Eat well while you diet Spend less time in the kitchen Try out simple and tasty recipes Lose weight without harming your health Weekly meal prep to try clean eating diet There are vegetarian, organic, gluten-free recipes in "21-Day Clean Eating Meal Plan - 1200 Calories." You'll find a detailed menu for five meals per day.Try these delicious dishes: Turkey Muffins with Mashed Potatoes, Peach Rice Bowl with Shrimp Warm Barley Chickpea Tomato Salad, Turkey Rolls with Vegetables Creamy Mashed Potatoes with Cauliflower, Dandelion Leaves Green Salad Buy "21-Day Clean Eating Meal Plan - 1200 Calories" today and change your habits and life immediately!
Three Squares
Author: Abigail Carroll
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 0465025528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our society as the food on our plates, and our national identity is written in the eating schedules we follow and the customs we observe at the table and on the go. In Three Squares, food historian Abigail Carroll upends the popular understanding of our most cherished mealtime traditions, revealing that our eating habits have never been stable—far from it, in fact. The eating patterns and ideals we’ve inherited are relatively recent inventions, the products of complex social and economic forces, as well as the efforts of ambitious inventors, scientists and health gurus. Whether we’re pouring ourselves a bowl of cereal, grabbing a quick sandwich, or congregating for a family dinner, our mealtime habits are living artifacts of our collective history—and represent only the latest stage in the evolution of the American meal. Our early meals, Carroll explains, were rustic affairs, often eaten hastily, without utensils, and standing up. Only in the nineteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution upset work schedules and drastically reduced the amount of time Americans could spend on the midday meal, did the shape of our modern “three squares” emerge: quick, simple, and cold breakfasts and lunches and larger, sit-down dinners. Since evening was the only part of the day when families could come together, dinner became a ritual—as American as apple pie. But with the rise of processed foods, snacking has become faster, cheaper, and easier than ever, and many fear for the fate of the cherished family meal as a result. The story of how the simple gruel of our forefathers gave way to snack fixes and fast food, Three Squares also explains how Americans’ eating habits may change in the years to come. Only by understanding the history of the American meal can we can help determine its future.
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 0465025528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our society as the food on our plates, and our national identity is written in the eating schedules we follow and the customs we observe at the table and on the go. In Three Squares, food historian Abigail Carroll upends the popular understanding of our most cherished mealtime traditions, revealing that our eating habits have never been stable—far from it, in fact. The eating patterns and ideals we’ve inherited are relatively recent inventions, the products of complex social and economic forces, as well as the efforts of ambitious inventors, scientists and health gurus. Whether we’re pouring ourselves a bowl of cereal, grabbing a quick sandwich, or congregating for a family dinner, our mealtime habits are living artifacts of our collective history—and represent only the latest stage in the evolution of the American meal. Our early meals, Carroll explains, were rustic affairs, often eaten hastily, without utensils, and standing up. Only in the nineteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution upset work schedules and drastically reduced the amount of time Americans could spend on the midday meal, did the shape of our modern “three squares” emerge: quick, simple, and cold breakfasts and lunches and larger, sit-down dinners. Since evening was the only part of the day when families could come together, dinner became a ritual—as American as apple pie. But with the rise of processed foods, snacking has become faster, cheaper, and easier than ever, and many fear for the fate of the cherished family meal as a result. The story of how the simple gruel of our forefathers gave way to snack fixes and fast food, Three Squares also explains how Americans’ eating habits may change in the years to come. Only by understanding the history of the American meal can we can help determine its future.