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A Revolution In Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America (Arts and Traditions of the Table)
A Revolution In Eating How the Quest for Food Shaped America - Arts and Traditions of the Table Author:James McWilliams James E. McWilliams offers a colorful tour of culinary tastes and techniques throughout colonial America. Integrating their British and European tastes with the demands and bounty of the rugged American environment, early Americans developed a range of regional cuisines. McWilliams also demonstrates the ways in which Americans imbued food and cu... more »isine with certain political and social values prompting the antimonarchical habits of simplicity, frugality, and frontier ruggedness to define American cuisine.« less