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How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America

Top of the pile

77

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

60/100

Critics

81/100

Scholars

90/100

Author:

Priya Fielding-Singh

Publisher:

Little, Brown Spark

Date:

November 16, 2021

Sociologist and ethnographer Priya Fielding-Singh brings us into the kitchens of dozens of families from varied educational, economic, and ethnoracial backgrounds to explore how—and why—we eat the way we do.

What The Reviewers Say

Beth Doole,
The San Francisco Chronicle
Fielding-Singh draws on years of meticulous field research, statistics and her own experience as a mother and biracial South Asian American woman to detail the constraints and challenges all mothers face in providing healthy, nourishing and enjoyable meals for their children and families.

Publishers Weekly
... enlightening.

Kirkus
... insightful.