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    “'Eating is an agricultural act,’ as Wendell Berry said, but Frederick Kaufman shows, undeniably, that it is an economic act as well.”
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  • A Short History of the American Stomach
    The extremes of American eating—our urge to stuff and to starve ourselves—are easy to blame on the excesses of modern living. But, we’ve been this way all along. From the secret history of Puritan purges to interviews with Amish black-market raw-milk dealers, this is the story of America told by way of the American stomach.

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    “Gourmets and gourmands alike will savor Kaufman’s keen, caustic anatomy of the American palate.”
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    “Who knew that Cotton Mather was America’s first food faddist or Benjamin Franklin our founding foodie? I loved every chapter of Kaufman’s book. American history has never been so much fun.”
    —Marion Nestle, author of What to Eat

    “A Short History of the American Stomach gives us something fresh, mixing erudition and passion with a tempered, lean, accurate prose that never misses its beats and never compromises a witty economy of style. Petronius would be proud.”
    —Lawrence Osborne, author of The Accidental Connoisseur

    “Kaufman makes brilliant use of humor and history to expose American's bipolar relationship with food. This is the book to read if you want to understand why, generation after generation, we doggedly persist in dividing edibles into good and bad, healthy and deadly, alternately stuffing then depriving ourselves, worshiping processed foods one year and organic the next, ad nauseam.”
    —Barry Glassner, author of The Gospel of Food

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April 03, 2009

Strangest Things Happen in Boston

Spent yesterday on the set of Discovery Channel's "Time Warp," as an expert commentator on competitive eating. Highlight of the day was watching Ferocious Pete from Ontario, Canada, face off against an English bulldog. First: cereal and milk for breakfast; then hot dogs for lunch; for dinner, spaghetti. All recorded on high-speed cameras, narrated by yours truly. Never seen anything like the look on the dog's face as Ferocious madly plunged his face into his dish of spaghetti.

Airdate: Some time in May . . .

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Peter Czerwinski

That was definitely funny. It was good to meet you.

Pete

Posted by: Peter Czerwinski | April 03, 2009 at 01:03 PM

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Frederick Kaufman

  • The food journalist who went looking for a slice of pizza and ended up on Wall Street.


  • I have written about American food culture and other subjects for Harper's Magazine, the New Yorker, Gourmet, Gastronomica, and the New York Times Magazine, among others. I've been a freelancer for years, and published something like one-hundred magazine articles, along with four books. I'm a contributing editor at Harper's, and teach at the City University of New York and CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism. Born in LA, I live in New York.

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