Eating History

Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14092-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History

The diet of the modern American wasn't always as corporate, conglomerated, and corn-rich as it is today, and the style of American cooking, along with the ingredients that compose it, has never been fixed. With a cast of characters including bold inventors, savvy restaurateurs, ruthless advertisers, mad scientists, adventurous entrepreneurs, celebrity chefs, and relentless health nuts, Andrew F. Smith pins down the truly crackerjack history behind the way America eats.Smith's delectable narrative opens with early America, an agriculturally independent nation in which most citizens grew and consumed their own food. Over the next two hundred years, Americans would cultivate an entirely different approach to crops and consumption. Advances in food processing, transportation, regulation, nutrition, and science introduced highly complex and mechanized methods of production. The proliferation of cookbooks, cooking shows, and professionally designed kitchens made meals more commercially, politically, and culturally meaningful. To better understand these trends, Smith delves deeply and humorously into their creation, ultimately showing how, by revisiting this history, we can reclaim the independent, local, and sustainable roots of American food.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologue1. Oliver Evans's Automated Mill2. The Erie Canal3. Delmonico's4. Sylvester Graham's Reforms5. Cyrus McCormick's Reaper6. A Multiethnic Smorgasbord7. Giving Thanks8. Gail Borden's Canned Milk9. The Homogenizing War10. The Transcontinental Railroad11. Fair Food12. Henry Crowell's Quaker Special13. Wilbur O. Atwater's Calorimeter14. The Cracker Jack Snack15. Fannie Farmer's Cookbook16. The Kelloggs' Corn Flakes17. Upton Sinclair's Jungle18. Frozen Seafood and TV Dinners19. Michael Cullen's Super Market20. Earle MacAusland's Gourmet21. Jerome I. Rodale's Organic Gardening22. Percy Spencer's Radar23. Frances Roth and Katharine Angell's CIA24. McDonald's Drive-In25. Julia Child, the French Chef26. Jean Nidetch's Diet27. Alice Waters's Chez Panisse28. TVFN29. The Flavr Savr30. Mergers, Acquisitions, and Spin-OffsEpilogueBibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew F. Smith teaches food studies at the New School University in New York City. He has published more than three hundred articles on food and food history and has authored or edited seventeen books, including Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War and the Oxford Encyclopedia on Food and Drink in America. Smith has also appeared on television shows airing on PBS, the History Channel, and the Food Network.