ABSTRACT
This chapter is an attempt to the divide between the stories coming from the earlier part of the twentieth century and those coming from the latter part of it by looking at a text that questions the logic of the post-industrial United States foodscape and landscape. It explains food's powerful symbolic agency as a form of cross-cultural communication. Embodied attachments to food are disseminated across multiple platforms: cookbooks, food shows, and recipes on the Internet and in print. Entire websites and bookstores are dedicated to the pursuit of the perfect meal. The consumption of media and raw materials, including food, has been viewed as the end of the road in the travel of capital, or on the path of foodways. The complexities of local food production and the violence inherent in clearing the land to create homesteads and large-scale farms occlude the hardships that both immigrant and migrant workers face.
