Food on the page : cookbooks and American culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Elias, Megan J. (Author)
Published: PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: vi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-280) and index.
ISBN: 9780812249170
0812249178
Index Number: TX644
CLC: TS971.2(712)
Call Number: TS971.2(712)/E423
Contents: Introduction. Words About Food -- The Best-Fed People in the World : American Cookbooks in the Nineteenth Century -- An Appetite for Innovation : Cookbooks Before the Second World War -- Gourmet Is a Boy : Midcentury Cookbooks and Food Magazines -- Mastering the Art of American Cooking : Julia Child and American Cookbooks -- Oppositional Appetites : Cookbooks and the Counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s -- The Palate of Personality : Chefs and Cookbooks at the End of the Twentieth Century -- Origin Stories : A New Discourse in Twenty-First-Century Cookbooks -- Epilogue. What Should We Read for Dinner?