Snack
1st Edition
Published on 19. February 2026
144 pages
979-8-7651-0883-3 (ISBN)
Description
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
In the hierarchy of foods, snacks are deemed trivial - perhaps even childish - especially in contrast to meals, which are seen as substantial and necessary. The multiple aisles devoted to sweet and savory treats in supermarkets, and the availability of snacks even at places like home improvement and department stores, speak to the popularity of snacking. But the ubiquity of snacks is relatively new and not common to all countries.
Eurie Dahn traces the story of snacking culture through specific snacks, including Flamin' Hot Cheetos, cheese crackers, and Choco Pies, and in the contexts of ethnicity, popular culture, diet culture, and even parenting. Snack is an idiosyncratic cultural history that offers surprisingly filling food for thought.
In the hierarchy of foods, snacks are deemed trivial - perhaps even childish - especially in contrast to meals, which are seen as substantial and necessary. The multiple aisles devoted to sweet and savory treats in supermarkets, and the availability of snacks even at places like home improvement and department stores, speak to the popularity of snacking. But the ubiquity of snacks is relatively new and not common to all countries.
Eurie Dahn traces the story of snacking culture through specific snacks, including Flamin' Hot Cheetos, cheese crackers, and Choco Pies, and in the contexts of ethnicity, popular culture, diet culture, and even parenting. Snack is an idiosyncratic cultural history that offers surprisingly filling food for thought.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
979-8-7651-0883-3 (9798765108833)
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Person
Eurie Dahn is author of Jim Crow Networks: African American Periodical Cultures (2021) and co-editor of an edition of Pauline E. Hopkins's Of One Blood (2022).
Content
Introduction
1. Origin Stories
2. Infantile Snacks
3. Fruits and Vegetables
4. Guilty Pleasures
5. Chocolate and Dried Squid
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
1. Origin Stories
2. Infantile Snacks
3. Fruits and Vegetables
4. Guilty Pleasures
5. Chocolate and Dried Squid
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
