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Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads
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Description for Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads
Paperback. Throughout, Lovegren supplements recipes - some mouth-watering, some appalling - from classic cookbooks and family magazines with humorous anecdotes that chronicle how society and kitchen technology influenced the way we lived and how we ate. Num Pages: 464 pages, 35halftones, 7line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; WBA; WBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 184 x 25. Weight in Grams: 922.
Though the Roaring Twenties call to mind images of flappers dancing the Charleston and gangsters dispensing moonshine in back rooms, Sylvia Lovegren here playfully reminds us what these characters ate for dinner: Banana and Popcorn Salad. Like fashions and fads, food - even bad food - has a history, and Lovegren's Fashionable Food is quite literally a cookbook of the American past. Well researched and delightfully illustrated, this collection of faddish recipes from the 1920s to the 1990s is a decade-by-decade tour of a hungry American century. From the Three P's Salad - that's peas, pickles, and peanuts - of ... Read more
Though the Roaring Twenties call to mind images of flappers dancing the Charleston and gangsters dispensing moonshine in back rooms, Sylvia Lovegren here playfully reminds us what these characters ate for dinner: Banana and Popcorn Salad. Like fashions and fads, food - even bad food - has a history, and Lovegren's Fashionable Food is quite literally a cookbook of the American past. Well researched and delightfully illustrated, this collection of faddish recipes from the 1920s to the 1990s is a decade-by-decade tour of a hungry American century. From the Three P's Salad - that's peas, pickles, and peanuts - of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226494074
SKU
V9780226494074
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Ref
99-50
About Unknown
A culinary historian and food writer, Sylvia Lovegren is an avid collector and reader of old cookbooks and has contributed to American Heritage and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America.
Reviews for Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads
"In recent years, the subject of food has been one primarily of seriousness verging on reverence. While that may be wholly justified, it's refreshing to have a good laugh (at ourselves) every now and then." - Library Journal; "In often hilarious fashion, Lovegren chronicles hundreds of wacky fads as the nation's cooks moved from frozen fishsticks and fat-free brownies to ... Read more