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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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A people's history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relations impacted Southern food culture over six revolutionary decades Like great provincial dishes around the world, potlikker is a salvage food. During the antebellum era, slave owners ate the greens from the pot and set aside the leftover potlikker broth for the enslaved, unaware that the broth, not the greens, was nutrient rich. After slavery, potlikker...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"An essential guide to understanding and improving any child's eating habits This comprehensive nutrition guide gives parents the tools for encouraging kids of any age on the path to healthy eating. Pediatric nutrition experts Castle and Jacobsen simplify nutrition information, describe how children's eating habits correspond to their stage of development, provide step-by-step feeding guidance, and show parents how to relax about feeding their kids...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A modern, brashly flavorful guide to cooking Taiwanese-American food, from Brooklyn's lauded Win Son, Win Son Bakery, and Cathy Erway, celebrated writer and expert on the cuisine. Josh Ku, born in Queens to parents from southern Taiwan, and Trigg Brown, a native Virginian whose mentor was a Taiwanese-American chef, forged a friendship over food--specifically, excellent tsang ying tou, or "flies' head," a dish of chopped budding chives kissed with...
Author
Publisher
Kane Press, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Comic-format stories explore the origins and histories of popular American foods from pizza to apple pie, with activities guiding readers in creating their own food history stories and art"--
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The seven culinary wonders of the world" is a global food history told through the stories of seven essential ingredients that are prized in cuisines the world over: honey, salt, chile, pork, rice, cacao, and tomato. Each of these foundational ingredients has played a long and valuable role in human foodways and culture, and each has its own fasinating tale.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food. In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora. To Twitty, the creation of African-Jewish cooking is a conversation...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
How did the Cuban sandwich become a symbol for a displaced people, win the hearts and bellies of America, and claim a spot on menus around the world? The odyssey of the Cubano begins with its hazy origins in the midnight cafés of Havana, from where it evolved into a dainty high-class hors d’oeuvre and eventually became a hearty street snack devoured by cigar factory workers. In The Cuban Sandwich, three devoted fans—Andrew Huse, Bárbara Cruz,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
500 Years in 20 minutes Explores the rich heritage and distinct qualities that typify the food Americans eat. The narrator, executive chef, and historian weave a story of food history from 1519 until today - in the South NE, Midwest, Pacific and SW of the USA. (Updated 2006)
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' "most endangered food." The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at "critical" risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley―but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down. Apples, cattle, dates―these are foods that carry significant cultural weight. But they’re disappearing. In Endangered...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
We ate them on the way to the moon and served them to the king of England. We name a Hot Dog-Eating Champ! Garnished with hilarious illustrations and amazing "food" facts, this kid-friendly, globe spanning history of our favorite fast-food meal offers unique insight into America's multicultural heritage. From a hobo's franks-and-beans to astronaut food, there's more to the wiener--and what's for dinner--than you think.
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