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Wallach Jennifer Jensen |
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Titolo |
American appetites : a documentary reader / / edited by Jennifer Jensen Wallach and Lindsey R. Swindall |
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Fayetteville, Arkansas : , : University of Arkansas Press, , 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (406 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Food - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 - Foundational Food; The Arapaho Learn How to Hunt Buffalo; The Iroquois Learn to Grow Beans, Corn, and Squash Together; Spanish Explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado Encounters Pueblo Food, 1540; Athanase de Mézières Describes Wichita Food Habits in Eighteenth-Century Texas; Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz Describes the Food of Eighteenth-Century Louisiana; Engravings by Jacques Le Moyne de Morques Depict Native American Subsistence Strategies in Sixteenth-Century Florida |
2 - Colonial Culinary EncountersEnglishman John Gerarde Evaluates the Nutritional Value of Maize, 1597; Olaudah Equiano Describes the Food of Seventeenth-Century Igbo; Alexander Falconbridge Describes the Food of the Middle Passage; Colonial Advertisement Offering Slaves for Sale Who Had Experience Cultivating Rice; Wahunsonacock Advises the English Residents of Jamestown Not to Steal Food from Native Americans; Captain John Smith Describes the Starving Time of 1609-1610; The Colonists at Plimoth Plantation Celebrate Their 1621 Harvest |
Massachusetts Colonist Mary Rowlandson Describes the Food Eaten by the Algonquin Who Held Her Captive in 1675 and 1676An Indentured Servant in Virginia Begs His Parents for Food, 1623; 3 - Developing a National Cuisine; Cotton Mather Describes Religious Fasting, 1683; Changing Fireplace Technology; Sarah Kemble Knight Describes Dining |
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During a 1704 Journey from Boston to New Haven; Cartoon Depicting Colonial Response to the British Tax on Tea, 1774; New York Coffeehouse, 1797; Excerpts from the First American Cookbook |
Benjamin Franklin Gives Advice about Eating and Drinking in Poor Richard's AlmanackThomas Jefferson Requests American Food while Living in France; Kitchen Inventory at Monticello Created by James Hemings; In a Letter to James Monroe, James Madison Reacts to Diplomatic Scandal over Dining Etiquette; 4 - Nineteenth-Century Expansion; Lydia Maria Child Advises American Women, 1832; Memoir of a Wagon Train to California, 1849; Cowboys Eating on the Range; Song about John Chinaman, 1850s; Laguna Pueblo Women Grinding Corn; Rose Wilder Lane's Memoir of Life in the West, 1880s |
5 - Foodways during Enslavement and WarRecipes and Advice for Southern Cooks, 1824; Frederick Douglass Recalls Childhood Hunger, 1845; Harriet Jacobs's Memoir, 1861; Diary of a Soldier from Illinois, 1862; Bread Riot in Richmond, 1863; Lincoln Declares a Day of National Thanksgiving, 1863; Union Officers Dining in the Field, 1864; Recipes and Counsel for Southern Women after the War, 1867; 6 - Eating in an Age of Decadence and Empire; Criticism of Conspicuous Consumption, 1903; Dinner Party Etiquette in 1877; The Nation Magazine Comments on the "Servant Problem"; Dinner at Delmonico's |
Advice on How to Achieve the Ideal Body Type in the Nineteenth Century |
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<div>Jennifer Jensen Wallach is associate professor of history at the University of North Texas and the author or editor of four books, including <i>How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture</i>.<br><br>Lindsey R. Swindall is visiting assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University and the author of three books including <i>The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955</i>.</div> |
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