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For Bitsy, food is a way of establishing her personal identity as a modern American woman. Bitsy positions herself as forward-thinking by engaging in certain western ideologies of parenthood and food consumption: she restricts Jin-Ho from drinking soda and consuming too many refined sugars, and limits her family’s consumption of red meat. These choices are reflective of a larger American discourse on food, in which this kind of dietary conscientiousness is a response to the industrialization and mass production of food. In the essay “Betty Crocker and the Woman in the Kitchen,” Laura Shapiro outlines the history of food production in North America