The barbecue boom in 1950s American was tied to nationalistic concepts of the "perfect family": patriarchal, suburban, and white.

World hunger is not caused by our inability to produce enough food. The problem arises because of the economic inequality that distorts food distribution.

Queen Victoria's wedding, and its spectacular cake, caused a frenzy.

People who like dining out have 40 to 55 percent higher phthalate levels than those who eat at home.

One scholar sees the toaster as a symbol of a modernized, industrialized society—the culprit of bread’s mechanization and a perpetrator of assimilation.

In the early years of food stamps the goal wasn't necessarily to feed America's poor. The idea was to buttress the price of food after the decline in crop prices had created a crisis in rural America.

Tea is bound up in the nation's history of colonial expansion. British tea drinkers preferred Chinese tea at first, and had to be convinced on patriotic grounds to drink tea from India.

Supermarkets represented a major innovation in food distribution—a gendered innovation that encouraged women to find sexual pleasure in subordination.

On a diet or cleanse in the new year? You're continuing in the very American tradition of self-perfection.

One scholar sees more in the Christmas food of authors like Charles Dickens—English national identity and class.