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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...

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Main Author: Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]
Series:American ways series
Subjects and Genres:
Food habits > United States.
Food preferences > United States.
Habitudes alimentaires > États-Unis.
Préférences alimentaires > États-Unis.
Food habits.
Food preferences.
Manners and customs.
Ernährung.
Ess- und Trinksitte
Sozialgeschichte
Coutumes alimentaires > États-Unis.
Préférences alimentaires > États-Unis.
United States > Social life and customs.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes.
United States.
USA.
États-Unis > Moeurs et coutumes.
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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.

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