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Author
Series
UMKC Social Justice Lecture Series Book volume 2011
Lexile measure
1240L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A journalist explores the homogenization of American culture and the impact of the fast food industry on modern-day health, economy, politics, popular culture, entertainment, and food production.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
176 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This keepsake cookbook features fetching retro patterns and illustrations, luscious photography, an embossed foil cover, and--surprise!--a tiny, vintage-style, booklet inside. Blue-ribbon recipes inspired by baking pamphlets from the 1920s to the 1960s are rendered with irresistible charm for modern tastes in this sweet package. Here are more than 50 cookies, pies, cakes, bars, and more, plus informative headnotes detailing the origins of each recipe...
Author
Publisher
Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Smithsonian Institution, the real story of the American table in a collection of snapshots, stories, and recipes from the pre-colonial era through today, including the people and events that have often been left out. In this exploration of the American table, the Smithsonian Institution presents a fresh look at what and how we've fed ourselves, for sustenance and for pleasure, through the lens of location, immigration, ingenuity, innovation,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Thirtieth anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In recipes and reminiscences equally delicious, Edna Lewis celebrates the uniquely American country cooking she grew up with some fifty years ago in a small Virginia Piedmont farming community that had been settled by freed slaves. With menus for the four seasons, she shares the ways her family prepared and enjoyed food, savoring the delights of each special time of year.
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Closing Time, William Lindeke and Andy Sturdevant dive into tales from famous and infamous drinking establishments from throughout Twin Cities history. Readers are led on a multigenerational pub crawl through speakeasies, tied houses, rathskellers, cocktail lounges, gin mills, fern bars, social clubs, singles bars, gastropubs, and dives. Featuring beloved bars like Matt's, Palmer's, the Payne Reliever, and Moby Dick's, the book also resurrects...
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this remarkable work, Rae Katherine Eighmey presents Franklin's delight and experimentation with food throughout his life. At age sixteen, he began dabbling in vegetarianism. In his early twenties, citing the health benefits of water over alcohol, he convinced his printing-press colleagues to abandon their traditional breakfast of beer and bread for "water gruel," a kind of tasty porridge he enjoyed. Franklin is known for his scientific discoveries,...
15) Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the business of civilizing the Wild West--one meal at a time
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Bantam Books Trade Paperback ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 518 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of entrepreneur Fred Harvey who built his business from a single lunch counter into a family empire that stretched across the West along the burgeoning railroads
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations, color map.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the everyday life, family roles, cooking methods, and common foods of pioneers who settled in the Midwest during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Includes recipes.
19) A prairie kitchen: recipes, poems and colorful stories from the Prairie Farmer magazine, 1841-1900
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
178 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced--the Great Depression--and how it transformed America's culinary culture. The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country's political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929, America's relationship with food was defined by abundance. But...