Jeffrey M. Pilcher

About The Author

Jeffrey M. Pilcher is associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota. He is also author of Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity, The Human Tradition in Mexico, and Food in World History.

Series by the Author

Books by Jeffrey M. Pilcher

The Sausage Rebellion

Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917

By Jeffrey M. Pilcher
This study of the Mexican meat industry's resistance to American processing methods illustrates one of the popular origins of the Revolution of 1910 and how Mexican butchers preserved their traditional craft.
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Que vivan los tamales!

Food and the Making of Mexican Identity

By Jeffrey M. Pilcher
This cultural history of food in Mexico traces the influence of gender, race, and class on food preferences from Aztec times to the present.
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