American Taste
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American Taste
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Author : James Villas
language : en
Publisher: Cook's Classic Library
Release Date : 2010
American Taste written by James Villas and has been published by Cook's Classic Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Cooking categories.
One of the most entertaining books on contemporary American cuisine, by renowned food writer James Villas In this acclaimed classic, James Villas shares his passions for food and drink--both the humble and the sophisticated--in essays including Understanding Fried Chicken, Upgrading Hash, and Cornflakes Be Damned! From his homage to asparagus to his treatise on French fries, Villas regales us with tales of American gastronomy from the perspective of a respectful gourmand and hired palate.
American Taste
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Author : Lewis Mumford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
American Taste written by Lewis Mumford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with Aesthetics categories.
A Taste Of Power
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Author : Katharina Vester
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2015-10-02
A Taste Of Power written by Katharina Vester and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-02 with History categories.
Since the founding of the United States, culinary texts and practices have played a crucial role in the making of cultural identities and social hierarchies. A Taste of Power examines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, points of cultural resistance. Culinary writing has helped shape dominant ideas of nationalism, gender, and sexuality, suggesting that eating right is a gateway to becoming an American, a good citizen, an ideal man, or a perfect wife and mother. In this brilliant interdisciplinary work, Katharina Vester examines how cookbooks became a way for women to participate in nation-building before they had access to the vote or public office, for Americans to distinguish themselves from Europeans, for middle-class authors to assert their class privileges, for men to claim superiority over women in the kitchen, and for lesbian authors to insert themselves into the heteronormative economy of culinary culture. A Taste of Power engages in close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture.
The Evolution Of American Taste
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Author : William Peirce Randel
language : en
Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers
Release Date : 1978
The Evolution Of American Taste written by William Peirce Randel and has been published by New York : Crown Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
Traces the development of American culture from Old World ideas and artifacts brought over by immigrants and often modified to suit new conditions through the nation's winning of independence and the westward expansion to the present.
American Culture American Tastes
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Author : Michael Kammen
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-10-03
American Culture American Tastes written by Michael Kammen and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-03 with Social Science categories.
Americans have a long history of public arguments about taste, the uses of leisure, and what is culturally appropriate in a democracy that has a strong work ethic. Michael Kammen surveys these debates as well as our changing taste preferences, especially in the past century, and the shifting perceptions that have accompanied them. Professor Kammen shows how the post-traditional popular culture that flourished after the 1880s became full-blown mass culture after World War II, in an era of unprecedented affluence and travel. He charts the influence of advertising and opinion polling; the development of standardized products, shopping centers, and mass-marketing; the separation of youth and adult culture; the gradual repudiation of the genteel tradition; and the commercialization of organized entertainment. He stresses the significance of television in the shaping of mass culture, and of consumerism in its reconfiguration over the past two decades. Focusing on our own time, Kammen discusses the use of the fluid nature of cultural taste to enlarge audiences and increase revenues, and reveals how the public role of intellectuals and cultural critics has declined as the power of corporate sponsors and promoters has risen. As a result of this diminution of cultural authority, he says, definitive pronouncements have been replaced by divergent points of view, and there is, as well, a tendency to blur fact and fiction, reality and illusion. An important commentary on the often conflicting ways Americans have understood, defined, and talked about their changing culture in the twentieth century.
Discriminating Taste
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Author : S. Margot Finn
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-24
Discriminating Taste written by S. Margot Finn and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-24 with Cooking categories.
For the past four decades, increasing numbers of Americans have started paying greater attention to the food they eat, buying organic vegetables, drinking fine wines, and seeking out exotic cuisines. Yet they are often equally passionate about the items they refuse to eat: processed foods, generic brands, high-carb meals. While they may care deeply about issues like nutrition and sustainable agriculture, these discriminating diners also seek to differentiate themselves from the unrefined eater, the common person who lives on junk food. Discriminating Taste argues that the rise of gourmet, ethnic, diet, and organic foods must be understood in tandem with the ever-widening income inequality gap. Offering an illuminating historical perspective on our current food trends, S. Margot Finn draws numerous parallels with the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century, an era infamous for its class divisions, when gourmet dinners, international cuisines, slimming diets, and pure foods first became fads. Examining a diverse set of cultural touchstones ranging from Ratatouille to The Biggest Loser, Finn identifies the key ways that “good food” has become conflated with high status. She also considers how these taste hierarchies serve as a distraction, leading middle-class professionals to focus on small acts of glamorous and virtuous consumption while ignoring their class’s larger economic stagnation. A provocative look at the ideology of contemporary food culture, Discriminating Taste teaches us to question the maxim that you are what you eat.
The Physiology Of Taste
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Author : Jules Arthur Harder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
The Physiology Of Taste written by Jules Arthur Harder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Cooking categories.
The Taste Of American Place
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Author : Barbara Gimla Shortridge
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 1998
The Taste Of American Place written by Barbara Gimla Shortridge and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Cooking categories.
Compilation of articles examining the culture, ethnicity, socioeconomics, geography, and demography of American food.
American S Taste 1851 1959
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Author : Marjorie Longley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
American S Taste 1851 1959 written by Marjorie Longley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with categories.
The Taste Of America
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Author : John L. Hess
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Taste Of America written by John L. Hess and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Cookbooks categories.
"In this extraordinary and long-awaited book, John and Karen Hess manage to put into words what all of us have been suspecting for years -- that we are a nation of junk food, no matter how pretentiously sophisticated it may appear to be. Our food has been robbed of its flavor and its nutritional value, loaded with additives, and dressed up with fancy packages and "gourmet" recipes ; even our so-called fresh vegetables, picked too soon and shipped too far, are unpalatable. Our cookbooks are full of nonsense, and our restaurants offer up poor food at high prices. But worst of all us that fact that we have let it happen, that we have forgotten what good eating is. Our experts -- the home economists, the food writers, and the gourmet snobs -- have let us down ; they have told us that things are better than ever, that our food is nourishing, plentiful, and appealing, and we have believed them. John Hess, former food editor of 'The New York Times', and his wife, Karen, who can cook and think at the same time, address the critical state of American food-mongering, cooking, and eating, puncturing along the way the bloated reputations of the "tastemakers" who have abused their power by perverting and misrepresenting the traditional virtues of the American table. They trace the history of our eating habits ; they expose the distortions of today's food-writer clique ; and they even take on modern agricultural methods, health faddism, and the "green revolution"."--