Consumer Behavior, Diet, and the Standard of Living in Late Colonial and Early Antebellum America, 1770-1840

Lorena Walsh, American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War (University of Chicago Press, 1992), chap. 5, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/american-economic-growth-and-standards-living-civil-war/consumer-behavior-diet-and-standard-living-late-colonial-and-early-antebellum-america-1770-1840.