Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine Smith AndrewPaperback
Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine Smith AndrewPaperback Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. The diet of the modern American wasn't always as…
Specifikacia Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine Smith AndrewPaperback
Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine Smith AndrewPaperback
Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. The diet of the modern American wasn't always as corporate, conglomerated, and corn-rich as it is today, and the style of American cooking, along with the ingredients that compose it, has never been fixed. Smith recounts--in delicious detail--the creation of contemporary American cuisine.
Over the next two hundred years, however, Americans would cultivate an entirely different approach to crops and consumption. With a cast of characters including bold inventors, savvy restaurateurs, ruthless advertisers, mad scientists, adventurous entrepreneurs, celebrity chefs, and relentless health nuts, Smith pins down the truly crackerjack history behind the way America eats.Smith's story opens with early America, an agriculturally independent nation where most citizens grew and consumed their own food. Advances in food processing,