No foreign food : the American diet in time and place /

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Author / Creator:Pillsbury, Richard.
Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.
Description:x, 262 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Geographies of the imagination
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2938391
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ISBN:0813327385
0813327393 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-251) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Concept and Content: an Introduction
  • 1. Concept: on What We Eat and What We Don't
  • 2. Content: a Traditional American Diet
  • 3. Stocking the Pantry: Technology and the Food Supply
  • 4. Too Busy to Cook: the Coming of Prepared Foods
  • 5. Marketing to the Masses
  • 6. Cooking by the Book
  • 7. Imported Tastes: Immigration and the American Diet
  • 8. Eating on the Town: Restaurants and the Diet
  • 9. A Contemporary American Diet
  • 10. Cuisine Regions: Concept and Content
  • 11. Continuity and Transformation: Last Thoughts
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index