Author:
Elias, Megan J. author.
Edition Statement:1st edition.
Imprint:Philadelphia : PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Descriptionvi, 296 pages ; 24 cm
Note:Introduction. Words About Food -- The Best-Fed People in the World : American Cookbooks in the Nineteenth Century -- An Appetite for Innovation : Cookbooks Before the Second World War -- Gourmet Is a Boy : Midcentury Cookbooks and Food Magazines -- Mastering the Art of American Cooking : Julia Child and American Cookbooks -- Oppositional Appetites : Cookbooks and the Counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s -- The Palate of Personality : Chefs and Cookbooks at the End of the Twentieth Century -- Origin Stories : A New Discourse in Twenty-First-Century Cookbooks -- Epilogue. What Should We Read for Dinner?
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-280) and index.