TY - BOOK AU - Lovegren,Sylvia TI - Fashionable food: seven decades of food fads SN - 0226494071 AV - TX355 .L88 2005 U1 - 641.59730904 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Food KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Cooking, American KW - Cooking KW - Social aspects KW - United States N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -