Haerens, Margaret. Ed. Sherri Libberman. American Food by the Decades: 1950s. Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2011. Print.
Précis
In her section “1950’s” (2011), Margaret Haerens, author and editor, suggests that television became influential to the way Americans eat. Haerens supports her claim by showing different types of examples of how television advertising has influenced Americans’ way of eating because advertising pushed the ideas of convenience. Her purpose is to allow readers to acknowledge the shift change between decades in order to show how television was essential to the way processed and convenience food ended up in peoples’ homes. She seems to want to educate her readers, so it seems she has students, educators, and a general audience in mind because her tone is very educational, and all her key points have examples with dates.
Evaluation
I couldn’t find anything specific about the author because any search I made would lead me to children’s books or there would be only a small portions of a review. I did come across a journal article that describes the author’s intentions with this book. Brian E. Cassidy, author of the journal entry, suggests that the book offers, so much information regarding each separate decade …show more content…
Lyman backs up his information with research that has been done with the association between colors and mood-tones. His intent is to present psychological research about the connection between food and psychology in order to grow curiosity in readers to examine how food preference is influenced in a psychological way. He seems to have nutritionist, psychologist, and an audience interested in the subject of food and psychology in mind because his information is mostly research
Précis
In her section “1950’s” (2011), Margaret Haerens, author and editor, suggests that television became influential to the way Americans eat. Haerens supports her claim by showing different types of examples of how television advertising has influenced Americans’ way of eating because advertising pushed the ideas of convenience. Her purpose is to allow readers to acknowledge the shift change between decades in order to show how television was essential to the way processed and convenience food ended up in peoples’ homes. She seems to want to educate her readers, so it seems she has students, educators, and a general audience in mind because her tone is very educational, and all her key points have examples with dates.
Evaluation
I couldn’t find anything specific about the author because any search I made would lead me to children’s books or there would be only a small portions of a review. I did come across a journal article that describes the author’s intentions with this book. Brian E. Cassidy, author of the journal entry, suggests that the book offers, so much information regarding each separate decade …show more content…
Lyman backs up his information with research that has been done with the association between colors and mood-tones. His intent is to present psychological research about the connection between food and psychology in order to grow curiosity in readers to examine how food preference is influenced in a psychological way. He seems to have nutritionist, psychologist, and an audience interested in the subject of food and psychology in mind because his information is mostly research