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Marion Nestle reflects on her late-in-life career as a world-renowned food politics expert, public health advocate, and a founder of the field of food studies after facing decades of low expectations. In this engrossing memoir, Marion Nestle reflects on how she achieved late-in-life success as a leading advocate for healthier and more sustainable diets. Slow Cooked recounts of how she built an unparalleled career at a time when few women worked in the sciences, and how she came to recognize and reveal the enormous influence of the food industry on our dietary choices. By the time Nestle obtained her doctorate in molecular biology, she had been married since the age of nineteen, dropped out of college, worked as a lab technician, divorced, and become a stay-at-home mom with two children. That's when she got started. Slow Cooked charts her astonishing rise from bench scientist to the pinnacles of academia, as she overcame the barriers and biases facing women of her generation and found her life's purpose after age fifty. Slow Cooked tells her personal story--one that is deeply relevant to everyone who eats, and anyone who thinks it's too late to follow a passion.

Women nutritionists --- Nestle, Marion. --- academia. --- american cultures. --- biography. --- changing careers. --- cuisine. --- culture. --- diet. --- dietary. --- domesticity. --- environmental studies. --- familial. --- family. --- food politics. --- food studies. --- household. --- housewife. --- late success. --- memoir. --- nutrition. --- personal. --- public health. --- story. --- wine.

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The term "community organizer" was deployed repeatedly against Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a way to paint him as an inexperienced politician unfit for the presidency. The implication was that the job of a community organizer wasn't a serious one, and that it certainly wasn't on the list of credentials needed for a presidential résumé. In reality, community organizers have played key roles in the political lives of American cities for decades, perhaps never more so than during the 1970s in Chicago, where African Americans laid the groundwork for further empowerment as they organized against segregation, discrimination, and lack of equal access to schools, housing, and jobs. In Crucibles of Black Empowerment, Jeffrey Helgeson recounts the rise of African American political power and activism from the 1930s onward, revealing how it was achieved through community building. His book tells stories of the housewives who organized their neighbors, building tradesmen who used connections with federal officials to create opportunities in a deeply discriminatory employment sector, and the social workers, personnel managers, and journalists who carved out positions in the white-collar workforce. Looking closely at black liberal politics at the neighborhood level in Chicago, Helgeson explains how black Chicagoans built the networks that eventually would overthrow the city's seemingly invincible political machine.

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This collection of essays provides an overview of new scholarship on recipe books, one of the most popular non-fiction printed texts in, and one of the most common forms of manuscript compilation to survive from, the pre-modern era (c.1550-1800). This is the first book to collect together the wide variety of scholarly approaches to pre-modern recipe books written in English, drawing on varying approaches to reveal their culinary, medical, scientific, linguistic, religious and material meanings. Ten scholars from the fields of culinary history, history of medicine and science, divinity, archaeology and material culture, and English literature and linguistics contribute to a vibrant mapping of the aspirations invested in, and uses of, recipes and recipe books. By exploring areas as various as the knowledge economies of medicine, Anglican feasting and fasting practices, the material culture of the kitchen and table, London publishing and concepts of authorship and the aesthetics of culinary styles, these eleven essays (including a critical introduction to recipe books and their historiography) position recipe texts in the wider culture of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They illuminate their importance to both their original compilers and users, and modern scholars and graduate students alike.

Cookbooks. --- Food writers. --- Food writing. --- Cooking --- Cooking writing --- Food --- Food journalism --- Authorship --- Cooking writers --- Food critics --- Food journalists --- Restaurant critics --- Restaurant reviewers --- Reviewers, Restaurant --- Authors --- Critics --- Cook-books --- Cookery --- Recipe books --- Books --- Food writing --- Food writers --- Cookbooks --- Literature --- Literature: History & Criticism --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh --- Literature: history & criticism --- Boscawen family. --- English recipes. --- Foote sisters. --- The Compleat Housewife. --- The Ladies Directory. --- The Queen-Like Closet. --- archaeologists. --- authorship. --- celebrity. --- culinary recipes. --- domestic life. --- early modern recipe text. --- genre conventions. --- housewifery. --- medicinal advice. --- medicinal recipe. --- recipe books. --- recipe manuscripts.

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A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their wealth and place in societyFrom TV's "real housewives" to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with fifty affluent New Yorkers-from hedge fund financiers and artists to stay-at-home mothers-to examine their lifestyle choices and understanding of privilege. Sherman upends images of wealthy people as invested only in accruing social advantages for themselves and their children. Instead, these liberal elites, who believe in diversity and meritocracy, feel conflicted about their position in a highly unequal society. As the distance between rich and poor widens, Uneasy Street not only explores the lives of those at the top but also sheds light on how extreme inequality comes to seem ordinary and acceptable to the rest of us.

Rich people --- Social classes --- Social stratification --- Wealth --- Advertising. --- African Americans. --- Allusion. --- Ambivalence. --- Awareness. --- Babysitting. --- Behalf. --- Career. --- Child care. --- Clothing. --- Community service. --- Competition. --- Concierge. --- Conspicuous consumption. --- Consumer. --- Consumption (economics). --- Cultural capital. --- Debt. --- Disadvantage. --- Domestic worker. --- Economic inequality. --- Economics. --- Egalitarianism. --- Employment. --- Entitlement. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Eric Klinenberg. --- Euphemism. --- Expense. --- Finance. --- Furniture. --- Grandparent. --- Grocery store. --- Handbag. --- His Family. --- Household income. --- Household. --- Housewife. --- Income distribution. --- Income. --- Institution. --- Interior design. --- Interview. --- Juliet Schor. --- Laundry. --- Legitimation. --- Lifestyle management. --- Luxury goods. --- Meritocracy. --- Middle class. --- Money management. --- My Child. --- Narrative. --- Nest Egg. --- Net worth. --- New York University. --- Nonprofit organization. --- Norm (social). --- Obligation. --- Organization. --- Parenting. --- Percentage. --- Personal assistant. --- Personhood. --- Philanthropy. --- Politician. --- Popular culture. --- Private school. --- Public Knowledge. --- Puritans. --- Real estate appraisal. --- Real estate broker. --- Relative deprivation. --- Renovation. --- Reproductive labor. --- Respondent. --- Retirement. --- Safety net. --- Salary. --- Saving. --- Self-sufficiency. --- Service provider. --- Sibling. --- Snob. --- Social class. --- Social inequality. --- Social reproduction. --- Society. --- Spendthrift. --- Spouse. --- Tax. --- The Other Hand. --- Trade-off. --- Unpaid work. --- Upper class. --- Volunteering. --- Wealth. --- Work ethic. --- Working class. --- Year.

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This captivating story of the Jewish community in Johnstown, Pennsylvania reveals a pattern of adaptation to American life surprisingly different from that followed by Jewish immigrants to metropolitan areas. Although four-fifths of Jewish immigrants did settle in major cities, another fifth created small-town communities like the one described here by Ewa Morawska. Rather than climbing up the mainstream education and occupational success ladder, the Jewish Johnstowners created in the local economy a tightly knit ethnic entrepreneurial niche and pursued within it their main life goals: achieving a satisfactory standard of living against the recurrent slumps in local mills and coal mines and enjoying the company of their fellow congregants. Rather than secularizing and diversifying their communal life, as did Jewish immigrants to larger cities, they devoted their energies to creating and maintaining an inclusive, multipurpose religious congregation. Morawska begins with an extensive examination of Jewish life in the Eastern European regions from which most of Johnstown's immigrants came, tracing features of culture and social relations that they brought with them to America. After detailing the process by which migration from Eastern Europe occurred, Morawska takes up the social organization of Johnstown, the place of Jews in that social order, the transformation of Jewish social life in the city, and relations between Jews and non-Jews. The resulting work will appeal simultaneously to students of American history, of American social life, of immigration, and of Jewish experience, as well as to the general reader interested in any of these topics.

Jews --- History. --- Pennsylvania --- Johnstown (Cambria County, Pa.) --- Ethnic relations. --- Affair. --- American Jews. --- American middle class. --- Americans. --- Autobiography. --- B'nai B'rith. --- Bankruptcy. --- Boutique. --- Career. --- Clifford Geertz. --- Coal town. --- Collective memory. --- Customer. --- Debt. --- Department store. --- E. P. Thompson. --- Eastern Europe. --- Economy. --- Emigration. --- Employment. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Ethnic group. --- Ethnic studies. --- Ethnoreligious group. --- Everyday life. --- Extended family. --- Family economy. --- Habitus (sociology). --- Haskalah. --- Historical sociology. --- Historiography. --- Household. --- Housewife. --- Hungarians. --- Ideology. --- Illustration. --- Immigration to the United States. --- Immigration. --- Income. --- Informant. --- Institution. --- Interwar period. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish name. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Kashrut. --- Laborer. --- Layoff. --- Literature. --- Lithuania. --- Livelihood. --- Lower East Side. --- Middle class. --- Minority group. --- Moses Rischin. --- Newspaper. --- Oral history. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Payment. --- Peasant. --- Politics. --- Postmodernism. --- Profession. --- Reform Judaism. --- Religion. --- Residence. --- Retail. --- Salary. --- Secondary education. --- Secularization. --- Shopkeeper. --- Shtetl. --- Slavs. --- Small business. --- Social center. --- Social environment. --- Social history. --- Social relation. --- Society of the United States. --- Society. --- Sociology. --- Standard of living. --- Sunday school. --- Superiority (short story). --- Synagogue. --- Tailor. --- Talmud Torah. --- Tkhine. --- United Jewish Appeal. --- Western Pennsylvania. --- Wholesaling. --- Workforce. --- World War I. --- World War II. --- Writing. --- Yiddish. --- Zionism.