White Bread : A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

from DieFledermaus

White Bread is an informative look at the changing view of industrial white bread from the late 19th century to the 21st. It was interesting to see how ideas of bread reflected the greater societal changes. The author divides his book into chapters looking at how different ideas - of purity, cont...

from rivkat

Free LibraryThing Early Reviewer book. This was a very enjoyable variation on telling a story of social transformation through a single commodity. Bobrow-Strain argues that, both in the US and outside, commercially produced white bread has stood in for and inspired various fantasies about progres...

from gtown

This book, as the subtitle states, covers the social aspects of white bread and its winding road of status from the top to the bottom. In just 200 pages, the book covers in details how attitudes towards white bread (and the bread itself) have been shaped by health scares, immigrants, wars and glo...

from lostinavalonOR

This one definitely had it's interesting parts but, for the most part, I wasn't super impressed. I did, however, really like the author's writing style in that, instead of writing up a chronological history, he broke the book into subjects and went chronologically in each section. That made it su...

from klockrike

Good book for understanding the history and making of this American staple.