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A Google search for nineteenth-century cookbooks returns many pages of results, all now in the public domain. It’s a virtual time machine for anyone who wants a sense of how our ancestors experienced food. Among my favorites: The White House Cook Book, from 1887. The opening pages read: “To the wives of our Presidents, those noble women who have graced the White House, and whose names and memories are dear to all Americans, this volume is affectionately dedicated.” After dispensing with such formalities, the author transitions to practical advice about preparing a chicken dinner:
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Gillette, Mrs. F. L. 1889. The White House Cookbook. Chicago, Philadelphia, Stockton, CA: L. P. Miller and Company, unnumbered page.
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Ibid., 70.
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“An American Lady.” 1864. The American Home Cook Book. New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, 22.
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Ibid.
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“Kurt,” personal interview, December 14, 2014.
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Tobin, Daniel, Joan Thomson, and Luke LaBorde. 2012. “Consumer Perceptions of Produce Safety: A Study of Pennsylvania,” Food Control 26 (2): 305–12, 309.
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Ibid.
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Vanham, D., F. Bouraoui, A. Leip, B. Grizzetti, and G. Bidoglio. 2015. “Lost Water and Nitrogen Resources Due to EU Consumer Food Waste,” Environmental Research Letters, 10 (8), http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/084008/meta, accessed June 16, 2016.
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Ibid.
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Davis, Donald. 2009. “Declining Fruit and Vegetable Nutrient Composition: What Is the Evidence?” HortScience 44 (1): 15–19.
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Estabrook, Barry. 2011. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 148–49.
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Davis, “Declining Fruit and Vegetable Nutrient Composition,” 19.
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Jarrell, W., and R. Beverly. 1981. “The Dilution Effect in Plant Nutrition Studies.” Pp. 197–224 in Advances in Agronomy, Vol. 34, ed. N. C. Brady. New York: Academic Press.
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Estabrook, Tomatoland, 94.
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Dee, Jon. 2013. “Australia Needs a Food Waste Strategy,” ABC.net, June 5, http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2013/06/05/3774785.htm, accessed February 6, 2016.
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Hurst, Daniel. 2010. “Growers Go Bananas Over Waste,” Brisbane Times, January 7, http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/growers-go-bananas-over-waste-20100106-lu7q.html, accessed February 6, 2016.
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Pimentel, David, and Michael Burgess. 2014. “Environmental and Economic Costs of the Application of Pesticides Primarily in the United States.” Pp. 47–71 in Integrated Pest Management, ed. David Pimental and Rajinder Peshin. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer Netherlands.
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In an earlier book, I discuss how eaters need to become tuned to alternative food networks, a concept that appears to have close parallels to Lynn’s use of the word recalibrate. See: Carolan, M. 2011. Embodied Food Politics. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
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See, for example: Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann. 1991 (1966). The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. London: Penguin.
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