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Enterprise and Society 2009 10(1):232-234; doi:10.1093/es/khn110
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Warren J. Belasco. Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry
Warren J. Belasco. Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry, 2nd ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. xi + 327 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7329-6, $21.95 (paper).
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Warren Belasco is recognized as a founding scholar of the interdisciplinary field of food studies. Appetite for Change, first published in 1989, was one of the books that established his reputation. The book describes a crucial period in recent food history when critics challenged once unquestioned assumptions about the value of mass-produced and highly processed food, American tastes expanded, and a wide range of ethnic and exotic foods became widely available. Yet, from Belasco's perspective, both as a
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