American cuisine : and how it got this way /

"With an ambitious sweep over two hundred years, Paul Freedman's lavishly illustrated history shows that there actually is an American cuisine. For centuries, skeptical foreigners--and even millions of Americans--have believed there was no such thing as American cuisine. In recent decades,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freedman, Paul, 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, A division of W. W. Norton & Company Independent Publishers Since 1923, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: what is American cuisine?
  • Flowering and fading: American regional food
  • Culinary nostalgia
  • Community cookbooks
  • The golden age of food processing, 1880-1970
  • Why Americans welcomed industrial food
  • Women and food in the twentieth century
  • - Have your cake, choose from our fifteen fabulous flavors, and eat it too
  • "Ethnic" restaurants
  • The magical 1970s
  • The food revolution grows up
  • Food in the year 2020 and beyond.