Introduction: Provisioning Politics and the Making of Imperial Food Industries

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Notes

1. “California Avocado Festival”

2. There has been a steady stream of scholarship focused on the relationship between food and empire at least since the publication Mintz, Sweetness and Power. Some key works, include Norton, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures; Earle, The Body of the Conquistador; Heath, Wine, Sugar, and Modern France; Collingham, The Taste of Empire; Bickham, Eating the Empire; and Durmelat, “Food and the French Empire.” There is quite a bit of work on specific food or drinks, such as Rappaport, A Thirst for Empire; and Regan-Lefebvre; Imperial Wine.

3. There is a great deal of work on U.S. agricultural imperialism, including Cullather, The Hungry World; Stoll, The Fruits of Natural Advantage; Sackman, Orange Empire; and Olmstead and Rhode, Creating Abundance.

4. Seikaly, Men of Capital, especially chapters three and five; Siegel, Hungry Nation; Otter, Diet for a Large Planet.