Our eating habits and hang-ups, from the Pilgrim Fathers to the present day.
BOOK REVIEW
By Matthew Price, Special to The Los Angeles Times
A Short History of the American Stomach Frederick Kaufman
Harcourt: 206 pp., $23
Kaufman interprets U.S. history through the American gut, leading us on a tour of the food fads and diet gurus of yesteryear, including the fiery Puritan minister Cotton Mather (“the first bona fide food nut in American history”) http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bk-price3feb03,0,3928769.story
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I was getting pretty edgy reading this. If I say I’m disagreeing with your post I would say nothing. Reading this is meaningless waste of time.