Plate by plate : California recipes from the Gold Rush through "California cuisine" / edited by Randall Tarpey-Schwed ; illustrated by Christopher Carroll.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tarpey-Schwed, Randall, editor.

Carroll, Christopher, 1945- illustrator.

Koch, Peter Rutledge, book designer, printer.

Book Club of California.

Series:

Keepsake series (Book Club of California) ; 2014.

The Book Club of California 2014 keepsake

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking--California--History.

Cooking.

Cooking, American--California style.

Cooking, American.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 portfolio (52 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : The Book Club of California, 2014.

Contents:

Plate by plate

The Gold Rush

The Mexican influence

Chinese immigration

Agricultural abundance

Love of the exotic

The cult of the celebrity chef

Health food & fad diets

Hollywood

California's response to war

Suburban sprawl & the culture of the barbecue grill

The spiritual meaning of food

The creation of "California cuisine".

Notes:

Consists of 13 unbound folded sheets in a wraparound portfolio.

On portfolio cover: Designed and printed by Peter Rutledge Koch.

"1000 copies have been designed and printed by Peter Rutledge Koch with the assistance of Jonathan Gerken and Dina Pollack. Christopher Carrol's illustrations are paper-cut and ink drawings. The typeface is Rialto DF Press, a special letterpress version of the humanistic antiqua text family Rialto, designed by Lui Karner and Giovanni de Faccio. Display types are Greco Adornado and Desdemona. The Aldine asterisks are from Blado Italic and the shaped texts are from the imagination of the printer."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

893976540