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The American cookbook : a history / Carol Fisher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: ix, 260 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0786423420
  • 9780786423422
Other title:
  • History
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 641.5973 22
LOC classification:
  • TX715 .F534 2006
Contents:
The beginning of the great American recipe exchange -- Cookbooks in the colonies: English cookbooks and Amelia Simmons -- Voices from the kitchen: leaders of the nineteenth century cookbook revolution -- Authors and cooking school teachers join the ranks -- America's favorite: the charity-community cookbook -- America's cultural stew: regional and ethnic cookbooks -- Health and nutrition cookbooks in America -- Cookbooks galore: promotional/advertising cookbooks and cookbooklets -- USDA cookbooks -- Cookbooks for special audiences -- Chef and restaurant cookbooks -- Alternative format cookbooks -- Revisiting the twentieth century: cookbook pot luck -- Most influential cookbooks of the twentieth century.
Summary: "This book serves up the American cookbook as a tasty sampler of history, geography and culture, revealing the influence of political events (e.g. wartime rationing), social movements (temperance), and technological change (new packaging and cooking methods)"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-251) and index.

The beginning of the great American recipe exchange -- Cookbooks in the colonies: English cookbooks and Amelia Simmons -- Voices from the kitchen: leaders of the nineteenth century cookbook revolution -- Authors and cooking school teachers join the ranks -- America's favorite: the charity-community cookbook -- America's cultural stew: regional and ethnic cookbooks -- Health and nutrition cookbooks in America -- Cookbooks galore: promotional/advertising cookbooks and cookbooklets -- USDA cookbooks -- Cookbooks for special audiences -- Chef and restaurant cookbooks -- Alternative format cookbooks -- Revisiting the twentieth century: cookbook pot luck -- Most influential cookbooks of the twentieth century.

"This book serves up the American cookbook as a tasty sampler of history, geography and culture, revealing the influence of political events (e.g. wartime rationing), social movements (temperance), and technological change (new packaging and cooking methods)"--Provided by publisher.

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