| No Foreign Food: The American Diet In Time And Place Contributor(s): Pillsbury, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813327393 ISBN-13: 9780813327396 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1998 Annotation: 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 melange of exotic foods? Why are Hoppin' Jack, lutefisk, and scrapple, once so important, seldom eaten today? How has the restaurant shaped our daily menus? These and hundreds of other questions are addressed in this examination of the changing American diet. Appropriately, Richard Pillsbury reviews the colonial American diet and its evolution from its Old World origins to the impact of the Industrial Revolution on food. He emphasizes the roles of transportation development and technological change, the rise of great food companies, the changing role of the food distribution system, the impact of changing immigration patterns, and the ways that cookbooks reflect and shape our foodways. The book concludes with an examination of America's contemporary cuisine. Noting current trends at home and in restaurants, Pillsbury reflects on the changing character of the new American diet, the growing nationalization and declining regionalization of what and how we eat, and a future where there is no foreign food. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | United States - General - Social Science | Customs & Traditions |
| Dewey: 394.109 |
| LCCN: 97047342 |
| Lexile Measure: 1350 |
| Series: Geographies of the Imagination |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.08" W x 9.08" (0.88 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Reading Richard Pillsbury's remarkable No Foreign Food, like the grand opening of a new restaurant in one's neighborhood, is an exciting and pleasurable event. He engagingly chronicles the amazing diversity of America's food ways that are so central to our history and culture, but he also tells us why our eating habits are much more than mere gastronomic experiences." Karl Raitz UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY "No Foreign Food is the only serious up-to-date treatment of American food habits that I know--a subject unaccountably neglected by most students of the American scene. In Pillsbury's skillful hands, American food habits become more than just a set of cranky likes and dislikes, but instead a mirror to America's larger culture. ... It is an indispensable book for any serious student of the American scene." Pierce Lewis PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY 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 melange of exotic foods? Why are Hoppin' John, lutefisk, and scrapple, once so important, seldom eaten today? How has the restaurant shaped our daily menus? These and hundreds of other questions are addressed in this examination of the changing American diet. |