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The extremes of American eating--our equal urges to stuff and to

starve ourselves--are easy to blame on the excesses of modern

living. But Frederick Kaufman followed the winding road of the

American intestine back to that cold morning when the first

famished Pilgrim clambered off the Mayflower, and he discovered the

alarming truth: We've been this way all along. With outraged wit

and an incredible range of sources that includes everything from

Cotton Mather's diary to interviews with Amish black-market

raw-milk dealers, Kaufman offers a highly selective,

take-no-prisoners tour of American history by way of the American

stomach. Travel with him as he tracks down our earliest foodies;

discovers the secret history of Puritan purges; introduces diet

gurus of the nineteenth century such as William Alcott, who

believed that "Nothing ought to be mashed before it is eaten";

traces extreme feeders from Paul Bunyan to eating-contest champ

Dale Boone (descended from Daniel, of course); and investigates our

blithe efforts to re-create what we've eaten to the point of

extinction.

Preface

1. Debbie Does Salad

2. The Sweet Taste of 6od

3. The Secret Ingredient

4. Manifest Dinner

5. Gorging on Diets

6. The Gastrosopher's Stone

7. Gut Reaction

Acknowledgments

Index

Frederick Kaufman has written about American food culture for

Harper's, The New Yorker, Gourmet, Gastronomica, Aperture, and the

Village Voice Literary Supplement, and has been a featured guest on

National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and "On the Media." Other

nonfiction has appeared in numerous pulications, among them the New

York Times Magazine, New York Time Book Review, New York Magazine,

Spin, Spy, and Interview. He is a professor of English at the City

University of New York and CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism. He

resides in New York. 　

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"There's no better literary difestif." (New York Daiy

News )"Vastly entertaining as it leads us through America's

digetive history, this book serves up Kaufman's notion of a country

whose development can be traced by the way its citizens eat, grow,

digest, and think of food." (Library Journal )"This

rollicking survey of our national food manias from Cotton Mather

('Look after thy stomach') to Rachael Ray is amiably peripatetic."

(New York Observer )"Witty and polemical...[Kaufman] makes

some valuable points about how the stomach influences the ways

Americans view themselves." (Los Angeles Times )"Kaufman's

witty historical analysis will be a treat for anyone interested in

food. He even finds insightful things to say about obscenely dry

historical figures like 17th-century minister Cotton Mather, whose

diaries are ripe with passages of binge-and-purge Puritanism. By

invoking the teachings of 'gastrosophists' such a Sylvester Graham

(yes, as in the cracker), and linking them to our current

food-crazed culture, he deftly illustrates how America always has,

and probably always will, lead with its gut." (New York

Magazine )

书籍介绍

The extremes of American eating--our equal urges to stuff and to starve ourselves--are easy to blame on the excesses of modern living. But Frederick Kaufman followed the winding road of the American intestine back to that cold morning when the first famished Pilgrim clambered off the Mayflower, and he discovered the alarming truth: We've been this way all along. With outraged wit and an incredible range of sources that includes everything from Cotton Mather's diary to interviews with Amish black-market raw-milk dealers, Kaufman offers a highly selective, take-no-prisoners tour of American history by way of the American stomach. Travel with him as he tracks down our earliest foodies; discovers the secret history of Puritan purges; introduces diet gurus of the nineteenth century such as William Alcott, who believed that "Nothing ought to be mashed before it is eaten"; traces extreme feeders from Paul Bunyan to eating-contest champ Dale Boone (descended from Daniel, of course); and investigates our blithe efforts to re-create what we've eaten to the point of extinction.