Cover; Food€Power; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction:€Food Power, the Food Network, and American Security; 1. Freedom from Want:€Creating a Postwar Food System; 2. Fixed Stomachs and Convenience Foods:€Abundance and Food in the 1950s; 3. Freedom to Farm:€Prosperity, Security, and "the Farm Problem" in€the€1950s; 4. What to Eat after an Atomic Bomb:€Deploying Food Power Defensively; 5. Food for Peace and the War on Hunger:€Food Power in the 1960s; 6. The World Food Crisis and the End of the Postwar Food System
Conclusion:€The Past, Present, and Future of World Food ProblemsNotes; Index
Summary
Food Power brings together the history of food, agriculture, and foreign policy to explore the use of food to promote American national security and national interests during the first three decades of the Cold War
