Eating in Eden Food & American Utopias

Name: Eating in Eden Food & American Utopias
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ISBN: 9780803217973

ISBN-10: 0803217978

ISBN-13: 9780803217973

Edition: 2008

Authors: Etta M. Madden, Martha L. Finch

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Perennially viewed as both a utopian land of abundant resources and a fallen nation of consummate consumers, North America has provided a fertile setting for the development of distinctive foodways reflecting the diverse visions of life in the United States. Immigrants, from colonial English Puritans and Spanish Catholics to mid-twentieth-century European Jews and contemporary Indian Hindus, have generated innovative foodways in creating “new world” religious and ethnic identities. The Shakers, the Oneida Perfectionists, and the Amana Colony, as well as 1970s counter-cultural groups, developed food practices that distinguished communal members from outsiders, but they also marketed their…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 5/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Eliza Leslie (1787–1858) wrote in several genres and published books of juvenile fiction as well as several books on domesticity, which includeDirections for Cookery, one of the most popular nineteenth-century American cookbooks. Etta M. Madden is a professor of English at Missouri State University. She is the coeditor, with Martha Finch, ofEating in Eden: Food and American Utopias(Nebraska 2006) and the author ofBodies of Life: Shaker Literature and Literacies.