Chewing on the Question, “What is American Food?” BY EMILY CONTOIS Welcome to the final class project from our spring 2017 course, “Food in American Society and…
The Three Cs of American Food ARIANNA DIAZ Characterized by convenience, access to capital, and a preoccupation with the calorie, American food… capital, convenience, nutritionism
Defining the Undefinable HANNAH KOPER When I arrived to my first Nordic Culinary Culture class as part of my… imported, inconsistent, indigenous
American Food: An Ideal Phone Plan CARINA YOUNG Perhaps not an initially obvious connection, American values surrounding food seem to resemble what… family, mobile, unlimited
American Food: More Than a Commodity? NEIL W. What do Lean Cuisine, Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies, and a Builder Bar have… freedom, hybridization, Pragmatism
Satiating America’s Desire for Choice BELLA DU MOND American values manifest themselves constantly in our food culture, from the commercials we… collaboration, convenience, trendiness
Eating with the Americans: The Personal Is Political LUCY DUDA The essential elements of American eating are hard to pin down. “What is American… history, politics, values
The Standardized American Diet Rosie Kissel An American brand must be, by definition, nationally distributed, uniform in quality, and totally… branded, Indulgent, standardized
I Dream of Food: The American Dream and Food Culture JULIA HEIMARK As food is an essential part of life, it has also become an essential… convenient, Indulgent, Socially Identifying
Integration: An American Dream EBONI MCNEAL Food is vital for life. Not only because it provides the nutrients humans need… empowerment, infusion, socialziation
No such thing as a “free” lunch: Freedom and Restriction in the American Way of Eating ALBERTA DEVOR American food’s limitless options appear to epitomize American freedom. For Americans who do not… Freeing, Identifying, Restricting
From “Amber Waves of Grain” to Nabisco® Triscuits: Food as the American Dream and Nightmare JOURDAN MELTZER I entered this class maintaining the working assumption that there is simply no such… convenient, mass, placeless
The Land of the Lazy…Or Is It? JASMINE THOMAS Americans are rude, fat, and lazy. This is the pessimistic perception that many people… convenience, Decadence, fusion
Rethinking American Food: It’s Not as “American” as You Think PAUL MARTINO The definition of American food needs to be rethought. When asked what American food… hybridization, immigration, reinvention
Land of the Free, Home of the Moralized Indulgence KELSEY SANDQUIST Anyone can be anything, or at least according to the stereotypical “American Dream”. So… Adaptation, Didactic, Indulgent
Bibliography Our thinking on the complex question, “What is American food?” is shaped by what we read…
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