Robert Dirks, Food in the Gilded Age; What Ordinary Americans Ate

Scott Alan Carson ()
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Scott Alan Carson: University of Texas, Permian Basin, Odessa, USA.

Journal of Economics and Political Economy, 2016, vol. 3, issue 3, 587-590

Abstract: Robert Dirks offers an important contribution to food and nutrition history in his book Food in the Gilded Age: What Ordinary Americans Ate. The book spans a broad swath of late 19th century US nutrition history using available dietaries from diverse sources and multiple ethnic groups. Early Mexican-Americans represent one of the earliest ethnic groups in the US. During the Gilded Age, the children of Native-Mexicans with early white European explorers –Mestizos-reflectthe most pre-developed diets in the West. Dirks summarizes their diets using Mexican-American households in Las Cruces, New Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley, Texas that were transitioning into Southwestern economies.

Keywords: Food policy; Economic hitory; Americans ate. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B10 L66 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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