. Jennifer S. Lee, ‘‘Neighbors of Vast Hog Farms Say Foul Air Endangers Their
Health,’’New York Times, May (Sunday news section).
.Forbes, October , quoted in Thompson, ‘‘High on the Hog,’’ .
. On sows and space and the European Union, see Singer, ‘‘Animal Liberation at
,’’ .
. Graham,No Name on the Bullet,.
. Michael Pollan, ‘‘The (Agri)Cultural Contradictions of Obesity,’’New York Times
Magazine, October . On Mississippi’s fatness rank, see theJackson Clarion-
Ledger, September .
. On the late corn subsidy projection, see Alexei Barrionuevo, ‘‘Mountains of
Corn and a Sea of Farm Subsidies,’’New York Times, November .
. The great authority is Alfred W. Crosby,The Columbian Exchange: Biological and
Cultural Consequences of (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, ); also hisEco-
logical Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, –(Cambridge: Cam-
bridge University Press, ). Below, on the diffusion of maize to Europe and other
continents, see (e.g.) Felipe Fernandez-Armesto,Near a Thousand Tables: A History of
Food(New York: Free Press, ), esp. , , –, .
. Elizabeth W. Etheridge,Butterfly Caste: A Social History of Pellagra in the South
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, ), –.
. Daphne A. Roe,A Plague of Corn: The Social History of Pellagra(Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, ), .
. See Alan M. Kraut,Goldberger’s War: The Life and Times of a Public Health Cru-
sader(New York: Hill and Wang, ), and more compactly, on the pellagra studies,
Roe,Plague of Corn,–.
. Kraut,Goldberger’s War.
. Quoted in Etheridge,Butterfly Caste,.
. Etheridge,Butterfly Caste, , , n. ; Roe,Plague of Corn,–.
. See Roe,Plague of Corn, –; Etheridge,Butterfly Caste, –.
. Among other works on the southern poor and the New Deal, see Jack Temple
Kirby,Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, –(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, ), esp. –.
. On food variety and supply, see Joe Gray Taylor,Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in
the South: An Informal History(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, ), –
(on frontiers); Sam Bowers Hilliard,Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old
South, –(Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, ), (on vege-
tables); plus Hilliard’s invaluableAtlas of Antebellum Southern Agriculture(Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, ).
. Harriet Martineau quoted in Taylor,Eating, Drinking, and Visiting, ; see also
– in his chapter on plantation fare, called ‘‘High on the Hog’’; – on vege-
tables available to nearly everyone; and – on slaves’ food. In addition to remem-
–