Katherine Leonard Turner

A solid, quick read--lots of examples to illustrate Turner's points, and I deeply appreciated her inclusion of gender as an analytical touchstone throughout the book, rather than touching on it as a special category in a segregated chapter. This book is super undertheorizied--the complexity of her analysis is maybe not what someone familiar with working class studies, for example, would hope. I would definitely recommend this for folks looking for an easy read into an understanding of how people outside the middle and upper classes ate.… (more)