Week 5

For week 5
For Tuesday
Bausch (2017) The Geography of Digestion, Chapter 3: Flaked cereal: The moment of invention
Bausch (2017) The Geography of Digestion, Chapter 5: Breakfast cereal in the twentieth century

For Thursday
DuPuis (2002) Nature's Perfect Food, Chapter 1: Why milk?
DuPuis (2002) Nature's Perfect Food, Chapter 2: The perfect food story
DuPuis (2002) Nature's Perfect Food, Chapter 3: Why no mother?

Be working on that policy brief!

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  1. UnknownMay 6, 2018 at 7:17 PM

    I find the discussion so interesting regarding "American" consumption of milk. Beyond infancy, milk was not even a part of the Native American diet. However, in other parts of the world, milk was a common, everyday food, albeit mostly in the form of goat or camel milk, or in the case of Mongolians, yak or horse milk. Milk emerging as a staple of the American diet came about right at the time of the Battle Creek cereal craze, and to this day, I defy anyone to eat their morning cereal with anything but milk. Well, almond and soy milk are now easily available, but much more expensive. I think that milk is less of an American-politics-driver and more of something that appealed to public tastes and became a staple. Its a little tiresome seeing the lurking boogymen of capitalism being driven by everything on our breakfast and dinner tables, although I suspect that is the point. Everything we eat, "need" or want has some complex trail of politics, culture and industry behind it. I enjoy looking at things like a spoon or a label or a can of pop or a shirt, and try to think out everything that went into making or creating that item. Its daunting. And with the complexity of cultural and political drivers behind everything we eat and wear, perhaps its more that milk and cereal took advantage of an open season in public acceptance of new norms rather than back-room plots to further white Euro-Americans over all else. Those factions also just took advantage of the open cultural zeitgeist at the turn of the 19th century. Hyper-idalism always appeals to people who are not aware of their connection to people who suffer for their ideals. Today its anything "organic" doing it.

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