Short History of the American Stomach（ISBN=9780156034692）
"There's no better literary difestif." ( New York DaiyNews )"Vastly entertaining as it leads us through America'sdigetive history, this book serves up Kaufman's notion of a countrywhose development can be traced by the way its citizens eat, grow,digest, and think of food." ( Library Journal )"Thisrollicking survey of our national food manias from Cotton Mather('Look after thy stomach') to Rachael Ray is amiably peripatetic."( New York Observer )"Witty and polemical...[Kaufman] makessome valuable points about how the stomach influences the waysAmericans view themselves." ( Los Angeles Times )"Kaufman'switty historical analysis will be a treat for anyone interested infood. He even finds insightful things to say about obscenely dryhistorical figures like 17th-century minister Cotton Mather, whosediaries are ripe with passages of binge-and-purge Puritanism. Byinvoking the teachings of 'gastrosophists' such a Sylvester Graham(yes, as in the cracker), and linking them to our currentfood-crazed culture, he deft
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