American Home Cooking - A Popular History

Tim Miller takes us on a fascinating tour of home cooking and eating in America - where it's been and where it's going - as well as a vivid accounting of our stubborn unwillingness to give it up all together in the face of easy, processed, and prepared meals.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Cooking in 1800

Chapter 2: The Early to Late 1800s

Chapter 3: The Late 1800s Through 1945

Chapter 4: 1945 to the early 1970s

Chapter 5: The Early 1970s Through Today

Chapter 6: The Future of Home Cooking

Bibliography

About the author

Tim Miller is a poet and writer living in Pennsylvania.

Summary

Tim Miller takes us on a fascinating tour of home cooking and eating in America – where it’s been and where it’s going – as well as a vivid accounting of our stubborn unwillingness to give it up all together in the face of easy, processed, and prepared meals.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Miller
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2017
• EAN: 9781442253452
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-5345-2
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy; Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > Theme cookery books; USA, COOKING / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Cookery / food & drink etc, Food & society, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Cultural studies: food and society, Cookery / food and drink / food writing