économies American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way by Freedman, Paul NEUF

Product Name: économies American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way by Freedman, Paul NEUF
EAN：9781631494628 UPC：9781631494628 ISBN：9781631494628 MPN：N/A Format：Hardback, 528 pages
Hailed as a ?grand theory of the American appetite? (Rien Fertel, Wall Street Journal), food historian Paul Freedmans American Cuisine demonstrates that there is an exuberant and diverse, if not always coherent, American cuisine that reflects the history of the nation itself. Combining historical rigor and culinary passion, Freedman underscores three recurrent themes?regionality, standardization, and variety?that shape a ?captivating history? (Drew Tewksbury, Los Angeles Times) of American culinary habits from postcolonial days to the present. The book is also filled with anecdotes that will delight food lovers: how dry cereal was created by William Kellogg for people with digestive problems; that Chicken Parmesan is actually an American invention; and that Florida Key lime pie goes back only to the 1940s and was based on a recipe developed by Bordens condensed milk. A new standard in food writing, American Cuisine is a landmark work that sheds astonishing light économies on a history most of us never believed we had..