Urban Appetites - Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York

Informationen zum Autor Cindy R. Lobel (1970-2018) was assistant professor of history at Lehman College. She also worked as a guide on food tours and helped create a walking tour on the history of Alexander Hamilton's legacy in New York City. Klappentext Cindy Lobel s "Urban Appetities" explores the coevolution of New York City, its politics, and its foodways. Between 1800 and 1890, New York grew from a seaport town with 60,000 residentswhose food came from local farms, waters, and forestsinto a city of 6,000,000, served by an elaborate army of food-sector workers, including regional dairymen and truck farmers, western ranchers, and farmers in the South, the Caribbean, and the Mediterranean. New York became abundant with food and restaurants as never before. Yet its food system was also highly inequitable and notably corrupt. Lobel s focus on the rise of New York as both a metropolis and a food capital opens a unique window onto the intersection of the cultural, social, political, and economic transformations of the nineteenth century. Her perspective provides for fresh consideration of the development of the market economy in New York; the rise of concerns about food quality and access to food; the development of a culture of conspicuous consumption; and the transformation of domestic culinary life. Altogether, Lobel illuminates the ways in which the city s physical and social growth was intimately connected to changes in its food networks."

Product details

• Authors: Cindy R Lobel, Cindy R. Lobel, Lobel Cindy R.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9780226322674
• ISBN: 978-0-226-32267-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban Am; Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban America (CHUP)
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; New York, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Food & society, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Cultural studies: food and society