1. Pemmican: Food in the Not-So-New World
2. Corn: Colonization and Settlement, 1500-1750
3. Whiskey: Eating and Drinking in a New Nation, 1750-1800
4. Graham Bread: Early Nineteenth-Century Diet and Reform
5. Potlikker: Food and Slavery in the Antebellum South
6. Peanuts: The Civil War, Reconstruction, and After
7. Jell-O: Industrialization in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
8. Spaghetti: Immigration and Consumerism in the 1910s and 1920s
9. Oranges: Food and Agriculture in the Great Depression
10. Spam: Eating in the Second World War
11. Green Bean Casserole: Postwar Foodways
12. Tofu: Food in the Counterculture and Protest Era, 1950-75
13. Chicken Nuggets: Cheap Food and Politics in the 1970 and 1980s
14. Big Mac: McDonaldization and Its Discontents, 1990-2008
15. Korean Tacos: Immigration, Social Media, and America Today
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index