Food on the Page : Cookbooks and American Culture / Megan J. Elias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elias, Megan J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cookbooks--United States--History.

Cookbooks.

Food writing--United States--History.

Food writing.

Food--United States--History.

Food.

Food habits--United States--History.

Food habits.

Cooking, American--History.

Cooking, American.

United States.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Food on the Page, the first comprehensive history of American cookbooks, Megan J. Elias chronicles cookbook publishing from the early 1800s to the present day. Examining a wealth of fascinating archival material, Elias explores the role words play in the creation of taste on both a personal and a national level.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction. Words About Food; 1 The Best-Fed People in the World: American Cookbooks in the Nineteenth Century; 2 An Appetite for Innovation: Cookbooks Before the Second World War; 3 Gourmet Is a Boy: Midcentury Cookbooks and Food Magazines; 4 Mastering the Art of American Cooking: Julia Child and American Cookbooks; 5 Oppositional Appetites: Cookbooks and the Counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s; 6 The Palate of Personality: Chefs and Cookbooks at the End of the Twentieth Century; 7 Origin Stories: A New Discourse in Twenty-First-Century Cookbooks.

Epilogue. What Should We Read for Dinner?Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-280) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed June 01., 2017)

ISBN:

9780812294033

0812294033

OCLC:

986102224