Grain and fire : a history of baking in the American South / Rebecca Sharpless.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharpless, Rebecca, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baking--Southern States--History.

Baking.

Cooking, American--Southern style.

Cooking, American.

Food habits--Social aspects--Southern States--History.

Food habits.

Cultural fusion--Southern States--History.

Cultural fusion.

Manners and customs.

History.

Food habits--Social aspects.

Southern States--Social life and customs--History.

Southern States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

Summary:

"While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of Southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complicated than it seems. Rebecca Sharpless here weaves a brilliant chronicle, vast in perspective and entertaining in detail, revealing how three global food traditions-Indigenous American, European, and African-collided with and merged in the economies, cultures, and foodways of the South to create what we know as the Southern baking tradition"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Acorn Bread: Grinding Only Looks Easy

ch. 2 Rosquetes de Azucar: America, Europe, Africa

ch. 3 Plumb Cakes: Wheat and Corn, Like It or Not

ch. 4 Hoecake: Who Ate What, and Who Decided That

ch. 5 Raison Cake: The Eye Was Well Deceived, but to the Taste It Was Rather Sour

ch. 6 White Mountain Cake: Poverty and Opulence

ch. 7 Jelly Roll: The Modernizing South

ch. 8 Chiffon Pie: Civil Rights and Sameness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781469668369

146966836X

OCLC:

1266896405

Publisher Number:

99990733632