Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture, Elias Megan J.

Автор: Elias Megan J.
Название: Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture
ISBN: 0812249178 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812249170
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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What is American food? From barbecue to Jell-O molds to burrito bowls, its history spans a vast patchwork of traditions, crazes, and quirks. A close look at these foods and the recipes behind them unearths a vivid map of American foodways: how Americans thought about food, how they described it, and what foods were in and out of style at different times.
In Food on the Page, the first comprehensive history of American cookbooks, Megan J. Elias chronicles cookbook publishing from the early 1800s to the present day. Following food writing through trends such as the Southern nostalgia that emerged in the late nineteenth century, the Francophilia of the 1940s, countercultural cooking in the 1970s, and today's cult of locally sourced ingredients, she reveals that what we read about food influences us just as much as what we taste.
Examining a wealth of fascinating archival material—and rediscovering several all-American culinary delicacies and oddities in the process—Elias explores the role words play in the creation of taste on both a personal and a national level. From Fannie Farmer to The Joy of Cooking to food blogs, she argues, American cookbook writers have commented on national cuisine while tempting their readers to the table. By taking cookbooks seriously as a genre and by tracing their genealogy, Food on the Page explains where contemporary assumptions about American food came from and where they might lead.

Автор: Elias Megan
Название: Lunch: A History
ISBN: 144222746X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442227460
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: This six-continent survey of the history, customs, and representations of the midday meal explains *who eats what for lunch; *where and when they eat it;*and what it means in the larger cultural context. The first international history of lunch, this book provides anecdotes and analysis that present lunch as a meaningful daily event.