Devoured: From Chicken Wings to Kale Smoothies—How What We Eat Defines Who We Are
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A provocative look at how and what Americans eat and why—a flavorful blend of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Salt Sugar Fat, and Freakonomics that reveals how the way we live shapes the way we eat.
Food writer and Culinary Institute of America program director Sophie Egan takes readers on an eye-opening journey through the American food psyche, examining the connections between the values that define our national character—work, freedom, and progress—and our eating habits, the good and the bad. Egan explores why these values make for such an unstable, and often unhealthy, food culture and, paradoxically, why they also make America’s cuisine so great.
Egan raises a host of intriguing questions: Why does McDonald’s have 107 items on its menu? Why are breakfast sandwiches, protein bars, and gluten-free anything so popular? Will bland, soulless meal replacements like Soylent revolutionize our definition of a meal? The search for answers takes her across the culinary landscape, from the prioritization of convenience over health to the unintended consequences of “perks” like free meals for employees; from the American obsession with “having it our way” to the surge of Starbucks, Chipotle, and other chains individualizing the eating experience; from high culture—artisan and organic and what exactly “natural” means—to low culture—the sale of 100 million Taco Bell Doritos Locos Tacos in ten weeks. She also looks at how America’s cuisine—like the nation itself—has been shaped by diverse influences from across the globe.
Devoured weaves together insights from the fields of psychology, anthropology, food science, and behavioral economics as well as myriad examples from daily life to create a powerful and unique look at food in America.
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Sophie Egan. (2016). Devoured: From Chicken Wings to Kale Smoothies—How What We Eat Defines Who We Are. HarperCollins.
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Sophie Egan is the Director of Health and Sustainability Leadership and Editorial Director at The Culinary Institute of America. Based in San Francisco, Sophie is a contributor to The New York Times' Well blog, and has written about food and health for Time, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bon Appétit, WIRED, and Sunset magazine, where she worked on The Sunset Cookbook and The One-Block Feast book. She holds a master of public health from the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on health and social behavior, and a bachelor of arts with honors in history from Stanford University. In 2016, she was named one of the UC Global Food Initiative's 30 Under 30.
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A provocative look at how and what Americans eat and why—a flavorful blend of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Salt Sugar Fat, and Freakonomics that reveals how the way we live shapes the way we eat.
Food writer and Culinary Institute of America program director Sophie Egan takes readers on an eye-opening journey through the American food psyche, examining the connections between the values that define our national character—work, freedom, and progress—and our eating habits, the good and the bad. Egan explores why these values make for such an unstable, and often unhealthy, food culture and, paradoxically, why they also make America’s cuisine so great.
Egan raises a host of intriguing questions: Why does McDonald’s have 107 items on its menu? Why are breakfast sandwiches, protein bars, and gluten-free anything so popular? Will bland, soulless meal replacements like Soylent revolutionize our definition of a meal? The search for answers takes her across the culinary landscape, from the prioritization of convenience over health to the unintended consequences of “perks” like free meals for employees; from the American obsession with “having it our way” to the surge of Starbucks, Chipotle, and other chains individualizing the eating experience; from high culture—artisan and organic and what exactly “natural” means—to low culture—the sale of 100 million Taco Bell Doritos Locos Tacos in ten weeks. She also looks at how America’s cuisine—like the nation itself—has been shaped by diverse influences from across the globe.
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Egan, a food writer and director of the Culinary Institute of America, has a front row seat on the machinations of the American food industry and Americans’ bizarre eating habits, and in this engrossing study she shows how the sturdy American values of work, freedom, and progress have negatively influenced the industrial food system. She explains that the quest for convenience has created a “muddle of the modern meal”; delves into the phenomenon of desktop dining, now the norm for 40% of American office workers; and chronicles the marketing of low-fat, natural, and gluten-free foods (the “selling of absence”), which may not always be the healthiest way to eat. A disturbing chapter on “stunt foods” illustrates how social media has contributed to such products as Burger King’s bacon sundae and what these freakish amalgamations say about Americans. And who would have ever imagined that fake food shortages (such as the rumor of insufficient avocados for Super Bowl parties), promoted by clickbait headlines, would become merely another path for generating revenue? The well-organized narrative combines insights from behavioral economics, food science, psychology, and Egan’s personal observations. Her book is well written, her tone is upbeat, and she offers sound solutions to the tangled problems she discusses, but this is not an appetizing picture of America.
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This engaging tour of contemporary American foodways considers several notable developments in culinary culture, including the blurring of "meal" and "snack;" the ascendancy of individuation (an abundance of choices at Starbucks); the ritualization of brunch and the Super Bowl party; and the success of junky cobranded innovations such as the Doritos Locos Taco. In America, we breakfast on the go, in stages (a protein bar during the commute or between meetings), and we lunch in the company of our desktop computers. We also pay a premium for provisions with ingredients such as fat, sugar, salt removed--and then guilt free, eat more of it. Widespread inconsistencies in food behaviors point to common tensions: health/indulgence, sustainability/convenience, pleasure/expediency, and familiarity/novelty. There's perhaps more to regret than to celebrate here, but Egan, a director in the strategic initiatives group at the Culinary Institute of America, keeps the tone generally light. VERDICT Egan's work encourages readers to slow down, savor, cook, and enjoy participating in America's innovative, multiethnic food culture. Recommended for all interested eaters, whether they are more invested in their own diets or in the macrolevel impacts of our food choices.--Janet Ingraham Dwyer, State Lib. of Ohio, Columbus
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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