Setting the table for Julia Child : gourmet dining in America, 1934-1961 /
Strauss, David,1937-
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Food fights in twentieth-century America : the good life versus the healthy life -- Building a foundation for gourmet dining in America -- Origins, rituals, and menus of gourmet dining societies, 1934-1961 -- Selectivity and publicity in the gourmet dining movement -- Beating the Nazis with truffles and tripe : the early years of "Gourmet : the magazine of good living" -- Gourmet's gastronomic tours : Samuel Chamberlain and his bouquets -- From readers to cooks? : the impact of Gourmet/gourmet recipes -- Julia and Simca : a Franco-American culinary alliance.
Gourmet.
Dinners and dining
Gourmets
Food habits
Food
Cooking, American