| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Virginia Scott Jenkins. Bananas: An American History. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. 2000. Pp. xiii, 210. $16.95.

Food studies is a hot field in academia these days. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, folklorists, and others are looking at food and food practices to see what they tell us about American culture. The result is a rich account of class, race, gender, ethnicity, ideology, and commerce. 1

Virginia Scott Jenkins tries to put her work squarely in this context. She has read the right theoretical literature, has creatively mined a rich collection of sources, and tells the reader some fascinating facts about bananas. The result feels thin, however; the reader does not end up learning much about American culture. . . .

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