a short history of the american stomach
frederick kaufman offers a piquant sampling of american history by way of the stomach.travel with him as he tracks down our earliest foodies ; discovers the secret history of puritan purges ; introduces diet gurus of the nineteenth century such aswilliam alcott who believed that nothing ought to be mashed before it is eaten ; traces extreme feeders from paul bunyan to eating contest champ dale boone descended from daniel of course ; and investigates our blithe efforts to re create the plants and animals that weve eaten to the point of extinction.with outraged wit and an incredible range of sources that includes everything from cotton mathers diary to interviews with amish black market raw milk dealers kaufman takes readers on a bourdainmeets pollan tour of the american gut .