How America eats a social history of U.S. food and culture /
This work, written by a food and social historian sheds a new and interesting light on American history by way of the dinner table. It is, at once, a study of America's diverse culinary history and a look at the country's unique and unprecedented journey to the present day. While undeniabl...
Main Author: | Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974- |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,
[2013]
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Physical Description: |
xv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Series: |
American ways series.
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Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- The cuisine of contact
- Food and the founding
- Foodways in an era of expansion and immigration
- Technology and taste
- Gender and the American appetite
- The pious or patriotic stomach
- Food habits and racial thinking
- The politics of food.