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"What's on their plates?" or feeding the hungry mouths: laborers, families, and food in the late twentieth century.

Journal of Popular Culture

| February 01, 2005 | Sheldon, Glenn | COPYRIGHT 2005 Blackwell Publishers Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Introduction

FROM THE FAMILIAR CAMPBELL'S SOUP TO ERNEST MATTHEW MICKLER'S White Trash Cooking, this investigation looks closely at the ways that class and food/eating collide in American society and in popular culture. It is also important to consider the influences behind changes, from demand to marketing, and the fluid boundaries between them. From cookbooks to the mass media, from the TV dinner phenomenon to the TV show Roseanne and her foray into the "loose meat sandwich" business, I investigate some of the representations of the ways that male and female laborers fed and feed their hungry families. There are also families' adaptations to demands of ...

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