H-Nutrition

September’s source of the month is “Christianity, Good Health and Vegetarianism in Japan, c. 1900-45” by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow and Kyoto University Postdoctoral Researcher Hiro Fujimoto, published in Food & History.

From the article abstract: “Western food cultures have been popular in Japan since the middle of the nineteenth century. Although meat-based diets spread quickly among the Japanese population at the turn of the twentieth century, some Japanese groups, particularly socialists and Seventh Day Adventists, were attracted to Western

August’s source of the month is Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology by historian and Ohio State University professor Chris Otter, published in paperback in 2023 by University of Chicago Press.

From the publisher’s website: We are facing a world food crisis of unparalleled proportions. Our reliance on unsustainable dietary choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our planet. Solutions from lab-grown food to vegan diets to strictly local food consumption are often discussed, but a central question

July’s source of the month is a cartoon dating from the Progressive Era’s pure food movement, a scan of which can be found at this link.

The cartoon comes from the papers of USDA chemist, pure food crusader, and Good Housekeeping columnist Harvey Washington Wiley (1844-1930), which can be found at the Library of Congress Manuscript Division in Washington, DC. The papers of Anna Kelton Wiley, consumer rights reformer and suffragist, are housed in the same division. Substantial resources on Wiley and the pure food movement can also be found in the Records of the Food and Drug Administration a