Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet Volume 51
(Book #51 in the California Studies in Food and Culture Series)
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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 regarding health. In this groundbreaking historical work, Amy Bentley explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of infancy and influenced the evolution of parental and pediatric care.
Until the late nineteenth century, infants were almost exclusively fed breast...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520283457
ISBN13:9780520283459
Release Date:September 2014
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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