Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine

Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine - Paperback

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Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine - Paperback

Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine - Paperback

by Andrew Smith
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Book Overview

Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts--in delicious detail--the creation of contemporary American cuisine. 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, Smith pins down the truly crackerjack history behind the way America eats.

Smith's story opens with early America, an agriculturally independent nation where most citizens grew and consumed their own food. Over the next two hundred years, however, 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 potent. To better understand these trends, Smith delves deeply and humorously into their creation. Ultimately he shows how, by revisiting this history, we can reclaim the independent, locally sustainable roots of American food.
ISBN9780231140935
Author Andrew Smith
PublisherColumbia University Press
GenreFood & cooking and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages392
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Andrew Smith is the author of Grasshopper Jungle, a Printz Honor Book and Winner of the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction, as well as 100 Sideways Miles, Ghost Medicine The Marbury Lens, and In the Path of Falling Objects. In addition to writing, he teaches high school advanced placement classes and coaches rugby. He lives in Southern California with his family, in a rural location in the mountains.

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