In Defense of Processed Food

Anastacia Marx de Salcedo

• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781789147674
• eBook ISBN: 9781789148251
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Culinary Arts

An iconoclastic celebration of canned, packaged, and preserved foods. By turns a scientific, feminist, and economic critique, this book gleefully attacks received wisdom about the dangers of processed food. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo argues that, in fact, most processed foods are relatively healthy and that their consumption is an undisputed boon to women's equality—since the burdens of cooking disproportionately fall on women. In de Salcedo's account, processed foods take too much blame for the negative effects of modern sedentary life, and alternative food systems are doomed to economic dysfunction. Ultimately, de Salcedo embraces the preserved foods in her pantry and encourages the reader to do the same.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• 1 WHAT IS PROCESSED FOOD?
• 2 HISTORY OF PROCESSED FOOD AND TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY INNOVATIONS
• 3 AN AGE-OLD TIME SUCK: WOMEN AND COOKING
• 4 SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE CHIC
• 5 THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
• CONCLUSION
• APPENDIX
• SOURCES
• FURTHER READING
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INDEX