Pressure Cooker Why Home Cooking Won't Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It

Sarah Bowen is Associate Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University. Her work focuses on food systems, local and global institutions, and inequality in the United States, Mexico, and France. She is author of Divided Spirits: Tequila, Mezcal, and the Politics of Production (2015).

Joslyn Brenton is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ithaca College. Her research focuses on the sociology of health and illness, with a particular focus on how mothers of young children think about food, health, and the body.

Sinikka Elliott is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia where she researches and teaches on the topics of gender, sexuality, inequality, and family. She is the author of Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their Teenagers.

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction: (Back) to the Kitchen?
Part One: You Are What You Eat
Chapter 2: Room 105
Chapter 3: Deep Roots
Chapter 4: By the Book
Chapter 5: Hurtful Words
Part Two: Make Time for Food
Chapter 6: Taking the Time
Chapter 7: Finding Balance
Chapter 8: Shift Work
Part Three: The Family that Eats Together, Stays Together
Chapter 9: Spaghetti for an Army
Chapter 10: Fourth of July
Chapter 11: Where's the Gravy?
Chapter 12: Takis
Chapter 13: Scarce Food
Part Four: Know What's on Your Plate
Chapter 14: Vote with Your Fork
Chapter 15: The Repertoire
Chapter 16: Sour Grapes
Part Five: Shop Smarter, Eat Better
Chapter 17: Smart Shopper
Chapter 18: Blood from a Turnip
Chapter 19: The Checkout Line
Part Six: Bring Good Food to Others
Chapter 20: Lotus Caf?
Chapter 21: A Small Fridge
Chapter 22: Daily Bread
Chapter 23: Stop Crying
Part Seven: Food Brings People Together
Chapter 24: Sunday Dinner
Chapter 25: Cupcakes for Cousin
Chapter 26: Thanksgiving
Chapter 27: Communion
Chapter 28: Conclusions: Thinking Outside the Kitchen

Appendix: Notes on Methods
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