Taste of America

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The Taste of America is both a history of American cooking and a history of the advice smiling celebrity cooks have asked Americans to swallow." "This much-needed new edition charts Julia Child ("She's not a cook, but she plays one on TV"), chides food maven Ruth Reichl, and marvels at a convention of food technologists (whose program bore the slogan "Eat your heart out, Mother Nature"). Delectable reading for consumers, reformers, and scholars, this twenty-fifth anniversary reissue of The Taste of America will ...
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The Taste of America is both a history of American cooking and a history of the advice smiling celebrity cooks have asked Americans to swallow." "This much-needed new edition charts Julia Child ("She's not a cook, but she plays one on TV"), chides food maven Ruth Reichl, and marvels at a convention of food technologists (whose program bore the slogan "Eat your heart out, Mother Nature"). Delectable reading for consumers, reformers, and scholars, this twenty-fifth anniversary reissue of The Taste of America will serve well into the new millennium.
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Previously published in 1972 and 1977. This third edition has a new preface. The authors trace the historical decline of American food and cooking, and argue that the golden age of American cookery occurred in the first half-century of the republic. They draw extensively on early cookery manuscripts, books and gardening manuals, and they make fun of nutritionist's jargon, microwave cookery, and convenience foods. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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A passionate and sweeping philippic…a spectacular collection of faults found, chances missed.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780252068751
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication date: 3/28/2000
  • Series: The Food Series Series
  • Edition description: 1ST ILLINO
  • Pages: 416
  • Product dimensions: 5.46 (w) x 8.18 (h) x 0.87 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Taste of Y2K
Acknowledgments
1 Rape of the Palate 1
2 Onward and Downward 9
3 Colonial Eden 21
4 "Better Than Fresh" 34
5 Let Them Eat Cake 56
6 The Art of the Hearth 70
7 Eliza 96
8 Fannie 113
9 The Recipe Racket 131
10 The Gourmet Plague 152
11 Vive la Difference 173
12 Dining Out 197
13 The Hustlers 217
14 A la Mode 240
15 Home Ec 253
16 The Nonfoodists 265
17 Manicured Chickens 283
18 The Green Revolution 303
19 Hope 329
A Co-Author's Note 337
Fancy Is Not Always Good 339
Our Last Review 343
Heartburn 345
Karen's Thanksgiving Turkey 348
But Let the Potato Chips Fall Where They May 351
Icon Flambe 355
Bibliography 361
Index 379
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