Fear of food a history of why we worry about what we eat and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle learn more enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. In fear of food harvey levenstein explores one of the striking anomalies of american culture its love hate relationship with eating and the particularly perplexing choices that humans have to make about the food they eat because they can eat everything the history of eating in america is thus the story of countless fads and special diets . Fear of food a history of why we worry about what we eat by harvey levenstein 367 and finicky eating adults decide not to eat food more flag like see review aug it turned out to be more of a comprehensive study of fear mongering about food through the media and institutions about everything from . Book review fear of food a history of why we worry about what we eat in his book fear of food harvey levenstein an emeritus professor of history at mcmaster university in ontario canada serves up a delightful review of the origins motivations and sustaining factors behind the huge number of warnings that have emerged over the . A history of why we worry about what we eat by harvey levenstein those who do not worry about what they eat but should and those who do worry about what they eat but should not fear of food offers a history of food scares in the us from the end of the 19th century up to the present day beginning with legitimate concerns