Warren Belasco

Biographic Data

ID197182
NAMEWarren Belasco
GIVEN NAMESWarren
FAMILY NAMEBelasco
SIGNATUREBELASCO W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS25
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • FCS Editors’ Roundtable: Reflections on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Journal

    Ken Albala, Warren Belasco et al.ARTICLEFood Culture & Society2017

    To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the journal Food, Culture and Society, current editor Amy Bentley and four of the previous editors: Alex McIntosh (1998–2003), Warren Belasco (2004–2008), Ken Albala (2008–2013), and Lisa Heldke (2008–2013) discuss the history of the journal. Topics include the beginning, growth and evolution of the journal, its place vis-à-vis the field of food studies, and prognostications for the future

  • Terroir in D.C.? Inventing Food Traditions for the Nation’s Capital

    Warren BelascoCHAPTEREdible Identities2016

    Michelle Obama planted her vegetable garden on the White House lawn and sponsored a new farmer&s;s market nearby, it seemed that the local food movement had come to official Washington. Even before his inauguration the President-Elect had made a pilgrimage to Ben&s;s Chili Bowl, a down-home hot dog stand known mainly to its indigenous black residents, and this too prompted speculation that the Federal City&s;s food resources might finally be rece…

  • Food and Social Movements

    Warren BelascoCHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of food history2012

    Social movements exist in three time zones—yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It is no surprising then that most people prefer to focus on matters of moment, especially when it comes to the food they eat, whose origins and consequences are far less immediate than the pleasures of the here-and-now. In this regard, food reformers are trying to complicate what is already a multifaceted process by which people choose what to eat. Daily food choices are …

  • Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart

    Roger Horowitz, Warren Belasco et al.BOOKFood Chains2011

  • The Frontiers of Food Studies

    Warren Belasco, A Bentley et al.ARTICLEFood Culture & Society2011References: 3

    From Latin meaning hearth or fireplace, and by extension the center of the home. Taken by Kepler (1604) in a mathematical sense for “point of convergence. ” Introduced into English 1656 by Hobbes. Sense transfer to “center of activity or energy ” is first recorded 1796. From the First Lady’s organic garden to policy proposals that would tax soda consumption to Julia Robert’s meal-based healing on the big screen, food is a site of American politic…

  • Eating in Class

    Daniel Bender, Rachel Ankeny et al.ARTICLERadical History Review2011

    In May to July 2010, food historians from across the world gathered virtually to share experiences of teaching food history. The complete, unedited version of our conversation will remain available for public view at www.groups.google.ca/group/rhr-radical-foodways. We encourage Radical History Review readers, students and teachers alike, to continue these discussions online.While food historians can and do make claims that food, like other curric…

  • Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food

    Warren BelascoARTICLEAgricultural History2009

    Book Review| July 01 2009 Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food. Pamela C. Ronald and Raoul W. Adamchak. Warren Belasco Warren Belasco Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 418–419. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.3.418 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Suppleme…

  • Food: The Key Concepts

    Warren BelascoBOOKFood2008

    Food: The Key Concepts presents an exciting, coherent and interdisciplinary introduction to food studies for the beginning reader. Food Studies is an increasingly complex field, drawing on disciplines as diverse as Sociology, Anthropology and Cultural Studies at one end and Economics, Politics and Agricultural Science at the other. In order to clarify the issues, Food: The Key Concepts distills food choices down to three competing considerations:…

  • Roadside Dreams, Fast Food Nightmares

    Warren Belasco, Warren James BelascoARTICLETechnology and Culture2001

    If John Jakle, Keith Sculle, and Eric Schlosser ever got together in the same room, I would love to be a fly on the wall. That might indeed be the only safe place to perch, considering their fundamentally different approaches to the same subject. To be sure, Jakle and Sculle, authors of Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), and Schlosser, whose more recently published Fast Food Na…

  • Future notes: The meal-in-a-pill

    Warren BelascoARTICLEFood and Foodways2000References: 6

  • Why Food Matters

    Open AccessWarren BelascoARTICLECulture & Agriculture1999

  • Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945

    Warren Belasco, Warren James BelascoBOOKAmericans on the road1997

  • Algae Burgers for a Hungry World? The Rise and Fall of Chlorella Cuisine

    Warren BelascoARTICLETechnology and Culture1997Cited by: 9

    Les scientifiques ont demontre que l'algue Chlorella etait riche en proteines et pouvait etre utilisee comme element de base pour la preparation d'aliments synthetiques

  • Storefront Revolution: Food Co-ops and the Counterculture

    Warren Belasco, Craig CoxARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article Storefront Revolution: Food Co-ops and the Counterculture. By Craig Cox. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994. xvi, 159 pp. Cloth, $37.00, ISBN 0-8135-2101-7. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8135-2102-5.) Get access Warren Belasco Warren Belasco University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, Sept…

  • Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age

    Warren Belasco, Virginia ScharffARTICLEJournal of American History1992Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age. By Virginia Scharf F. (New York: Free Press, 1991. xii + 219 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-02-928135-0.) Get access Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age. By Scharff Virginia. (New York: Free Press, 1991. xii + 219 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-02-928135-0.) Warren Belasco Warren Belasco University of Maryland, Baltimore County Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…

  • Dietary Modernization

    Warren Belasco, Warren J Belasco et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1990

  • Ethnic fast foods: The corporate melting pot

    Warren Belasco, Warren J BelascoARTICLEFood and Foodways1987Cited by: 9References: 7

    (1987). Ethnic fast foods: The corporate melting pot. Food and Foodways: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-30

  • The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-Century North America

    Warren Belasco, John A JakleARTICLEJournal of American History1985Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-Century North America. By John A. Jakle. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xiv + 382 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.95.) Get access Warren Belasco Warren Belasco University of Maryland, Baltimore County Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 717–718, https://do…

  • The Automobile Revolution: The Impact of an Industry

    Warren Belasco, Jean-Pierre Bardou et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1984

  • Lite' Economics: Less Food, More Profit

    Warren Belasco, Warren J BelascoARTICLERadical History Review1984Cited by: 2

  • Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South: An Informal History

    Warren Belasco, Joe Gray TaylorARTICLEJournal of American History1983Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South: An Informal History. By Joe Gray Taylor. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. x + 184 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Cloth, $22.50; paper, $7.95.) Get access Warren Belasco Warren Belasco University of Maryland, Baltimore County Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, I…

  • Homes on Wheels

    Warren Belasco, Michael Aaron RocklandARTICLETechnology and Culture1982

  • Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America, 1925-1939 . Jeffrey L. Meikle

    Warren BelascoARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1981

  • Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945

    Open AccessJohn A Jakle, Warren Belasco et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1981Cited by: 1

    During the early twentieth century more and more Americans not only acquired automobiles, but took to the road as tourists and crosscountry travelers.Warren Belasco's account of the evolution of the modern motel chronicles a progression of economic and social attitudes culminating in the post-World War II rise of the franchised chain.Yet the Holiday Inn concept did not spring from the mind of Kemmons Wilson like Venus from the head of Zeus.Rather…

  • The Devil Wagon in God's Country: The Automobile and Social Change in Rural America, 1893-1929

    Warren Belasco, Warren J Belasco et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1980