Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat: An American History - Couverture souple

Ward, Christina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1934170941 ISBN 13 : 9781934170946

Editeur : Process Media, 2023

Synopsis

Does God have a recipe?

Independent food historian Christina Ward's highly anticipated Holy Food explores the influence of mainstream to fringe religious beliefs on modern American food culture. Author Christina Ward unravels the numerous ways religious beliefs intersect with politics and economics and, of course, food to tell a different story of America. It's the story of true believers and charlatans, of idealists and visionaries, and of the everyday people who followed them ― often at their peril. Holy Food explains how faith pioneers used societal woes and cultural trends to create new pathways of belief and reveals the interconnectivity between sects and their leaders. Religious beliefs have been the source of food 'rules' since Pythagoras told his followers not to eat beans (they contain souls), Kosher and Halal rules forbade the shrimp cocktail (shellfish are scavengers, or maybe G-d just said 'no'). A long-ago Pope forbade Catholics to eat meat on Fridays (fasting to atone for committed sins). Rules about eating are present in nearly every American belief, from from high-control groups that ban everything except"air" to the infamous strawberry shortcake that sated visitors to theOneida Community in the late 1800s. In America, where the freedom to worshipthe god of your choice and sometimes of your own making, embraced oldtraditions and invented new ones.

Holy Food looks at how theexplosion of religious movements since the Great Awakenings (the nationwidereligious revivals in the 1730s-40s and 1795-1835) birthed a cottage industryof food fads that gained mainstream acceptance. And at the obscure sects andcommunities of the 20th Century who dabbled in vague spirituality that usedfood to both entice and control followers. Ward skillfully navigates betweenacademic studies, interviews, cookbooks, and religious texts to make sharpobservations and new insights into American history in this highly readablejourney through the American kitchen.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christina Ward is an author, editor, and seeker. She is also the Vice President and Editor of Feral House, a publisher noted for their books on outré topics. She had the distinct pleasure of riding around town in the Wienermobile with Padma Lakshmi on the hottest day in July of 2019 for "Taste the Nation."

Her previous book, American Advertising Cookbooks-How Corporations Taught Us To Love, Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O, earned positive notice from Florence Fabricant in the New York Times, Christopher Kimball of Milk Street Radio, and numerous other journalists and readers.

Ward makes regular guest expert on public radio stations across the United States, delighting in 'working blue' before 8 am. In her spare time, she is the certified Master Food Preserver for Southeast Wisconsin and always picks up the phone to answer pressing questions about jelly that won't set and soft pickles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Process Media
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1934170941
• ISBN 13: 9781934170946
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible