The El Chico Cookbook
date: label: date made
content: 1977
notes: label: Description
content: Since the 1950s, demand has soared in the United States for cookbooks featuring diverse ethnic cuisines. Reflecting a heightened interest in foods and flavors from various cultures, the explosion of ethnic cookbooks—and ethnic restaurants and markets—serves to educate the general public while often bolstering cultural pride among members of ethnic communities. Cookbooks not only provide instructions on how to prepare regional specialties, they often contain historical and cultural information about peoples and places.
label: Description
content: During the 1960s, El Chico restaurants were developing into one of the largest Mexican dinner house chains in the United States. Following the lead of many chain restaurants of the time, El Chico was among the first Tex- Mex places to offer franchises. The chain also created and marketed its own line of packaged foods and cookbooks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Eating
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content: Food Culture
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content: kitchen
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content: Home and Community Life: Food Technology
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content: Food
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content: FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: gift of Fifi Caballero Benson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0158.04
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0158.04
label: accession number
content: 2011.0158
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cookbook
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 6 in; 22.86 cm x 15.24 cm