Eating in Eden : Food and American Utopias / / edited by Etta M. Madden and Martha L. Finch

• Pubblicazione: Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2006; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012; ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Disciplina: 641/.013
• Soggetto topico: Food habits; Gastronomy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FinchMartha L MaddenEtta M. <1962->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: New World Utopias: Cultivating Immigrant Identities through Food; 1. Pinched with Hunger, Partaking of Plenty: Fasts and Thanksgivingsin Early New England; 2. Faith, Flatulence, and Fandangos in the Spanish-American Borderlands; 3. An Appetite for America: Philip Roth's Antipastorals; 4. You Are Where You Eat: Negotiating Hindu Utopias in Atlanta; Part Two: Communal Utopias: Eating In, but Not Of, the World ; 5. Kitchen Sisters and Disagreeable Boys: Debates over Meatless Diets in Nineteenth-Century Shaker Communities6. Strawberries and Cream: Food, Sex, and Gender at the Oneida Community; 7. Food and Social Relations in Communal and Capitalist Amana; 8. Recipes for a New World: Utopianism and Alternative Eating in Vegetarian Natural-Foods Cookbooks, 1970–84; Part Three: Strategic Utopias: Cooking Up Values for a New World; 9. "This Fatal Cake": The Ideals and Realities of Republican Virtue
• Sommario/riassunto: North America has provided a fertile setting for the development of distinctive foodways reflecting the diverse visions of life in the United States. This book explores the ways Americans have produced, consumed, avoided, and marketed food and food-related products and meanings to further their visionary ideals.
• Titolo autorizzato: Eating in Eden
• ISBN: 0-8032-1797-8; 0-8032-5644-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248070703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: At table series.