Nourishing Networks - The Public Culture of Food in New Orleans

Nourishing Networks illuminates the central role that food played in shaping one of the United States' most captivating places, New Orleans. Ashley Rose Young weaves together the story of street food in the Big Easy and the development of the uniquely epicurean city.

About the author

Ashley Rose Young is the American History Curator in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress. She is also a Smithsonian Research Associate and was formerly the Historian of the Smithsonian Food History Project at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. A curator and public historian, she has written for the New York Times and and Washington Post, among other outlets.

Product details

• Authors: Ashley Rose Young
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.10.2025
• EAN: 9780197794036
• ISBN: 978-0-19-779403-6
• Illustrations: 15 b&w halftones
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / North America, Food & society, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Cultural studies: food and society