The Cultural Significance of (Baby and Other) Food (w/ Amy Bentley an Kevin Currie-Knight)

July 10, 2021 01:05:54
The Cultural Significance of (Baby and Other) Food (w/ Amy Bentley an Kevin Currie-Knight)
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The Cultural Significance of (Baby and Other) Food (w/ Amy Bentley an Kevin Currie-Knight)

Jul 10 2021 | 01:05:54

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Show Notes

In this episode, Amy Bentley (food historian, NYU) talks about the cultural and historical reasons we eat as we do. Amy and Kevin talk about why w eat three meals a day, how COVID might disrupt our eating habits, and the five historical factors that made baby food possible in the industrial age. 

4:46 Why does Amy study food history? (Spoiler: it has to do with the role of gardening during World War II.)
11:54: How industrialization led to our three-meal-a-day eating schedule
23:01 - How has COVID messed with our three-meal-a-day cultural regimen?
34:29 - How baby food influenced (and was influenced by) culture
36:38 - The perfect storm of factors that gave rise to baby food (industrialization, discovery of fruits and vegetables' importance, advertising, sexualization of breasts, etc)
54:10 - Baby food and its politicization via the "mommy wars"

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