1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813060003321

Autore

Dirks Robert <1942->

Titolo

Food in the Gilded Age : what ordinary Americans ate / / Robert Dirks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4422-4514-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Collana

Rowman & Littlefield studies in food and gastronomy

Disciplina

394.1/20973

Soggetti

Diet - United States - History - 19th century

Diet - United States - History - 20th century

Food habits - United States - History - 19th century

Food habits - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Nutrition history -- Mountaineers and a nutrition transition in Appalachia -- African Americans and soul foods -- Rich and poor and the seasonality of diet -- Immigrants' diets -- Contrasts.

Sommario/riassunto

The Gilded Age is renowned for the excesses of the robber barons and tycoons. The lavishness of their tables impressed contemporaries and historians alike. But what about the eating habits of ordinary Americans at the time? Robert Dirks answers that question by peering through the lens of what then was a newly emerging science of nutrition.