How the Other Half Eats

Few places reveal the gaps between American households as clearly as the dinner table. Priya Fielding-Singh, a sociologist and ethnographer, spent years studying how families feed themselves. In this book she takes readers into the home kitchens of dozens of households that differ widely in education, income, and ethnic and racial background.

Her central question is how, and why, people eat the way they do. Drawing on her fieldwork, the book uses everyday food habits as a window onto inequality in the United States.