Modern food, moral food : self-control, science, and the rise of modern American eating in the early twentieth century / Helen Zoe Veit.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]

xiii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

National willpower : American asceticism and self-government -- Eating cats and dogs to feed the world : the progressive quest for rational food -- Food will win the world : food aid and American power -- A school for wives : home economics and the modern housewife -- A corn-fed nation : race, diet, and the eugenics of nutrition -- Americanizing the American diet : immigrant cuisines and not-so-foreign foods -- The triumph of the will : the progressive body and the thin ideal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.