Fashionable food
Subtitle: seven decades of food fads
By: Sylvia Lovegren
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
Subjects: Food; Cooking; American Cooking; History
Description: "This collection of faddish recipes from the 1920s to the 1990s is a decade-by-decade tour through a hungry American century. From the Three P's Salad - that's peas, pickles, and peanuts - of the post-World War I era to the Fruit Cocktail and Spam Buffet Party loaf - all the rage in the ultra-modern 1950s, when cooking from a can epitomized culinary sophistication - Fashionable Food explores the origins of these curious delicacies. Throughout, Lovegren supplements recipes - some mouth-watering, some appalling - from classic cookbooks and family magazines with humorous anecdotes that explain how society and kitchen technology influenced the way we lived and how we ate."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.