Revolution in Eating How the Quest for Food Shaped America

Name: Revolution in Eating How the Quest for Food Shaped America
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ISBN: 9780231129930

ISBN-10: 0231129939

ISBN-13: 9780231129930

Edition: 2007

Authors: James McWilliams

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Sugar, pork, beer, corn, cider, scrapple, and hoppin' John all became staples in the diet of colonial America. The ways Americans cultivated and prepared food and the values they attributed to it played an important role in shaping the identity of the newborn nation. In A Revolution in Eating, James E. McWilliams presents a colorful and spirited tour of culinary attitudes, tastes, and techniques throughout colonial America. Confronted by strange new animals, plants, and landscapes, settlers in the colonies and West Indies found new ways to produce food. Integrating their British and European tastes with the demands and bounty of the rugged American environment, early Americans developed a…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.93" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Preface


Introduction Faithful History My Belief Learning to Believe


The Social Dimensions of Rationality


The Book of Mormon and the American Revolution


The Book of Mormon in Early Mormon History The Lamanite View of Book of Mormon History


The Recovery of the Book of Mormon


The Book of Mormon and Its Critics Joseph Smith and Skepticism Joseph Smith in the Current Age Making Space for the Mormons


The Visionary World of Joseph Smith Was Joseph Smith a Gentleman? Joseph Smith as Translator ""The Little, Narrow