{"product_id":"nourishing-networks-ashley-rose-young-9780197794036","title":"Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in New Orleans","description":"For much of the Crescent City's history, days began with the cries of roaming street vendors and the percussive \u003cem\u003ethwack\u003c\/em\u003e of butchers' meat cleavers echoing out from the municipal markets. Generations of New Orleanians--Black and white, enslaved and free, men and women, wealthy and working class--gathered in public to feed the city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eNourishing Networks\u003c\/em\u003e, historian Ashley Rose Young illuminates the central role of food in shaping the vibrant culture of New Orleans. While the city's dynamic culinary scene fostered bonds between some communities, under the surface, groups viciously vied for control over who bought and sold food and where they could do it. Young traces the intricate systems of food vendors and their customers, and how those relationships were affected by race, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. She shows how vendors and customers alike exercised considerable influence over the city's food economy and the laws that regulated it by negotiating prices, shaping taste preferences, liaising with government officials, and even openly defying ordinances they felt were unfair. The power each group gained and lost determined the success of their businesses, the well-being of their families, and their ability to shape food retail and local laws to meet their needs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eNourishing Networks \u003c\/em\u003evividly depicts a city that throughout its history has struggled to feed its population safely and affordably, and in documenting those challenges, it offers lessons for building a better food future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ashley Rose Young\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197794033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197794036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Ashley Rose Young","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47420077146367,"sku":"9780197794036","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_900307d3-acf8-4fff-822f-81ea317043b1.jpg?v=1761525625","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nourishing-networks-ashley-rose-young-9780197794036","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}