Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Charles C. Ludington and Matthew Morse Booker
- Producing food. Savior or monster? The truth about genetically engineered agriculture / Margaret Mellon
- Born in the U.S.A.: the Americanness of industrial agriculture / Peter A. Coclanis
- Food activism : a critical history / Steve Striffler
- Choosing food. Can "taste" be separated from social class? / S. Margot Finn
- The standard of taste debate : how do we decide what tastes best? / Charles C. Ludington
- What does it mean to eat right? Nutrition, science, and society / Charlotte Biltekoff
- Regulating food. Who should be responsible for food safety? Oysters as a case study / Matthew Morse Booker
- U.S. farm and food subsidies : a short history of a long controversy / Sarah Ludington
- Gendering food. What should babies eat and whose business is it? / Amy Bentley
- Home, cooking : why gender matters to food politics / Tracey Deutsch
- Cooking and eating food. Is thinking critically about food essential to a good life? / Robert T. Valgenti
- A plea for culinary luddism / Ken Albala
- A plea for culinary modernism : why we should love fast, modern, processed food (with a new postscript) / Rachel Laudan.
