1st Edition

No Foreign Food The American Diet In Time And Place

By Richard Pillsbury Copyright 1998
272 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

“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... Read more
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

Biography

Richard Pillsbury