The American century cook-book / Jean Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Jean, 1929-2023.

Contributor:

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, American.

Cooking--United States--History.

Cooking.

Food habits--United States--History.

Food habits.

History.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Grad, Laurie Burrows (donor)

Physical Description:

xii, 547 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : C. Potter, [1997]

Summary:

For the past ten years, Jean Anderson has been on a quest: to search out the most popular recipes of the 20th century and to chronicle 100 years of culinary change in America. The result is a rich and fascinating look at where we've been, at the recipes our mothers and grandmothers loved, and at how our own tastes have evolved. The more than 500 cherished recipes in these pages are mainstays of American home cooking, the recipes that have remained favorites year after year. Beyond this collection is Jean's exploration of the diversity of our nation's cuisine and our adoption of such "foreign" dishes as pizza, gazpacho, lasagne, moussaka, and tarte tatin. Her painstakingly researched text includes extensive headnotes, thumbnail profiles of important people and products (from Fannie Farmer to James Beard and from electric refrigerators to the microwave), and a timeline of major 20th century food firsts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 520-531) and index.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Laurie Burrows Grad.

ISBN:

0517705761

OCLC:

36315925

Online:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

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