A Revolution in Eating

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
James McWilliams argues that colonial American attitudes about food and politics were intertwined. A history professor at Texas State University–San Marcos, Mr. Williams shows that the colonists used food as a way of asserting their political and social convictions in A Revolution In Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America.

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