Introduction
Chapter 1: The Cuisine of Contact
Chapter 2: Food and the Founding
Chapter 3: Foodways in an Era of Expansion and Immigration
Chapter 4: Technology and Taste
Chapter 5: Gender and the American Appetite
Chapter 6: The Pious or Patriotic Stomach
Chapter 7: Food Habits and Racial Thinking
Chapter 8: The Politics of Food
A Note on Sources

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.

Jennifer Jensen Wallach is associate professor of history at the University of North Texas. She is the author, most recently, of Richard Wright: From Black Boy to World Citizen.