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Fashionable food : seven decades of food fads / Sylvia Lovegren.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005Description: viii, 455 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226494071
  • 9780226494074
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 641.59730904 22
LOC classification:
  • TX355 .L88 2005
Contents:
The twenties: Icebox cookery and other modern ideas. -- The thirties: Comforting food in America. -- An exotic interlude: Chinese food in America. -- The forties: Oh, what a hungry war! -- The fifties: Fabulous foods for the richest country on earth. -- The sixties: Nouveaux gourmets. -- An exotic interlude, II: Other oriental foods in America. -- The seventies: Eating our way to Nirvana. -- The eighties: For richer, for poorer: status food and comfort food. -- The nineties: Fin de siècle cooking in the fusion decade.
Review: "This collection of faddish recipes from the 1920s to the 1990s is a decade-by-decade tour through a hungry American century. From the Three P's Salad - that's peas, pickles, and peanuts - of the post-World War I era to the Fruit Cocktail and Spam Buffet Party loaf - all the rage in the ultra-modern 1950s, when cooking from a can epitomized culinary sophistication - Fashionable Food explores the origins of these curious delicacies. Throughout, Lovegren supplements recipes - some mouth-watering, some appalling - from classic cookbooks and family magazines with humorous anecdotes that explain how society and kitchen technology influenced the way we lived and how we ate."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The twenties: Icebox cookery and other modern ideas. -- The thirties: Comforting food in America. -- An exotic interlude: Chinese food in America. -- The forties: Oh, what a hungry war! -- The fifties: Fabulous foods for the richest country on earth. -- The sixties: Nouveaux gourmets. -- An exotic interlude, II: Other oriental foods in America. -- The seventies: Eating our way to Nirvana. -- The eighties: For richer, for poorer: status food and comfort food. -- The nineties: Fin de siècle cooking in the fusion decade.

"This collection of faddish recipes from the 1920s to the 1990s is a decade-by-decade tour through a hungry American century. From the Three P's Salad - that's peas, pickles, and peanuts - of the post-World War I era to the Fruit Cocktail and Spam Buffet Party loaf - all the rage in the ultra-modern 1950s, when cooking from a can epitomized culinary sophistication - Fashionable Food explores the origins of these curious delicacies. Throughout, Lovegren supplements recipes - some mouth-watering, some appalling - from classic cookbooks and family magazines with humorous anecdotes that explain how society and kitchen technology influenced the way we lived and how we ate."--BOOK JACKET.

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