The Arkansas Center for the Book is pleased to share our Great Reads selection for Adults: US History in 15 Foods by Anna Zeide (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). “From whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that represent key moments in the history of the United States, this book takes readers from before European colonization to the present, narrating major turning points along the way, with food as a guide.”
Dr. Anna Zeide is Associate Professor of History and the founding director of the Food Studies Program in the College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences at Virginia Tech University. She grew up in southeast Arkansas. Watch Anna talk about US History in 15 Foods as well as the 2023 National Book Festival theme “Everyone Has a Story” in the Great Reads: Central 2 Adult video.