American Appetites A Documentary Reader |
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| Editor:
| Wallach, Jennifer Jensen
Swindall, Lindsey R. |
| Series title: | Food and Foodways Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-55728-668-0 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of Arkansas Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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Designed to appeal to students of history and foodies alike, American Appetites brings together compelling firsthand testimony describing the US's collective eating habits throughout time. Readers will experience vicariously hunger and satiation, culinary pleasure and gustatory distress from perspectives as varied as those of enslaved Africans, nineteenth-century socialites, battle-weary soldiers, impoverished immigrants, and prominent politicians.
Designed to appeal to students of history and foodies alike, American Appetites brings together compelling firsthand testimony describing the US's collective eating habits throughout time. Readers will experience vicariously hunger and satiation, culinary pleasure and gustatory distress from perspectives as varied as those of enslaved Africans, nineteenth-century socialites, battle-weary soldiers, impoverished immigrants, and prominent politicians.