Morris Rosenberg Award DC Sociological SocietyIn recent years questions such as amp8220what are kids eatingamp8221 and amp8220whoamp8217s feeding our kidsamp8221 have sparked a torrent of public and policy debates as we increasingly focus our attention on the issue of childhood obesity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that while 1 in 3 American children are either overweight or obese that number is higher for children living in concentrated poverty. Enduring inequalities in communities schools and homes affect young peopleamp8217s access to different types of food with real consequences in life choices and health outcomes. FastFood Kids sheds light on the social contexts in which kids eat and the broader backdrop of social change in American life demonstrating why attention to foodamp8217s social meaning is important to effective public health policy particularly actions that focus on behavioral change and school food reforms.Through indepth interviews and observation with high school and college students Amy L. Best provides rich narratives of the everyday life of youth highlighting young peopleamp8217s voices and perspectives and the places where they eat. The book provides a thorough account of the role that food plays in the lives of todayamp8217s youth teasing out the many contradictions of food as a cultural objectamp8212fast food portrayed as a necessity for the poor and yet reviled by uppermiddle class parents fast food restaurants as one of the few spaces that kids can claim and effectively amp8216take overamp8217 for several hours each day food corporations spending millions each year to market their food to kids and to lobby Congress against regulations schools struggling to deliver healthy food young people will actually eat and the difficulty of arranging family dinners which are known to promote family cohesion and stability.A conceptuallydriven ethnographic account of youth and the places where they eat FastFood Kids examines