Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:

compose a 3-5 pg review and analysis of the book "How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture" by Wallach, Jennifer Jensen. Using themes from the class, this assignment should provide you an opportunity to read something you actually want to read, while also asking you to think critically about the material you’ve learned over the course of the semester.
Themes:
the pre-Colombian exchange: Indigenous foodways in the Americas
The Colonizer and the Kernelized: Food’s Role in the “conquest.
Creole Cuisine: Food and Identity in the 18th century.
Manifeast Destiny: Eating and American Expansion
Hog Meat and Hominy: Food in the Old South
Into the Melting Pot: Migration, Industrialization, and the urban eater.
Victory Garden: “Patriotic Eating” during the World Wars