Böcker av Jennifer Jensen Wallach

How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture tells the story of America by examining American eating habits, and illustrates the many ways in which competing cultures, conquests and cuisines have helped form America's identity, and have helped define what it means to be American.

Argues that the field of autobiography studies, which is dominated by literary critics, needs a theoretical framework that allows historians, too, to benefit from the interpretation of life writing.