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No Foreign Food Richard Pillsbury

No Foreign Food By Richard Pillsbury

No Foreign Food by Richard Pillsbury

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This book explores the evolution and transformation of the American diet from colonial times to the present. It explains how and why did our bland colonial diet evolve into today's restless melange of exotic foods and how has the restaurant shaped our daily menus.

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No Foreign Food: The American Diet In Time And Place by Richard Pillsbury

No Foreign Food explores the evolution and transformation of the American diet from colonial times to the present. How and why did our bland colonial diet evolve into today's restless mnge of exotic foods? Why are Hoppin' Jon, lutefisk, and scrapple, once so important, seldom eaten today? How has the restaurant shaped our daily menus? These and hun

About Richard Pillsbury

Richard Pillsbury is professor of geography at Georgia State University.

Table of Contents

Concept and Content: An Introduction -- Concept: On What We Eat and What We Don't -- Content: A Traditional American Diet -- Stocking the Pantry: Technology and the Food Supply -- Too Busy to Cook: The Coming of Prepared Foods -- Marketing to the Masses -- Cooking by the Book -- Imported Tastes: Immigration and the American Diet -- Eating on the Town: Restaurants and the Diet -- A Contemporary American Diet -- Cuisine Regions: Concept and Content -- Continuity and Transformation: Last Thoughts

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NPB9780367317034
9780367317034
0367317036
No Foreign Food: The American Diet In Time And Place by Richard Pillsbury
Richard Pillsbury
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2019-08-28
276
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