Bobrow-Strain delivers an engrossing, truly social history of white bread. The author raises some big questions: What is the relationship between white bread and class? Where do diet and privilege intersect? How can such a banal food product represent so many contradictions? How can white bread'...
bread politics. As someone trained in subjects like Latin American history and anthropology and the political economy of Third World agriculture, however, I had no idea what that might mean. Figuring it out has taken lots of help from many people. Special thanks go to Melanie DuPuis, Susanne Frei...