Taste of American Place A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods

Name: Taste of American Place A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods
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ISBN: 9780847685073

ISBN-10: 0847685071

ISBN-13: 9780847685073

Edition: 1998

Authors: Barbara Shortridge, James Shortridge, Cary de Wit, Stephen Frenkel, Marjorie Hoover

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Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 398
Size: 6.04" wide x 9.15" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction: Food and American Culture




Pasties in Michigan's Upper Peninsula: Foodways, Interethnic Relations, and Regionalism




Rocky Mountain Oysters




Loco Moco: A Folk Dish in the Making




The Cincinnati Chili Culinary Complex




A Pound of Kenya, Please or a Single Short Skinny Mocha




The Maine Lobster as Regional Icon: Competing Images over Time and Social Class




Patterns of American Rice Consumption 1955 and 1980




Food-Place Associations on American Product Labels




The Compiled Cookbook as Foodways Autobiography




Introduction: On Ethnic Foodways




Bierocks and Back for More Bierocks




Cajuns and Crawfish




Playing with Food: The Negotiation of Identity in the Ethnic Display Event by Italian Americans in Clinton, Indiana




New York Jews and Chinese Food: The Social Construction of an Ethnic Pattern




Eating Out in South Carolina's Cities: The Last Fifty Years




The Geography of Food in Eastern Oklahoma: A Small Restaurant Study




From Pushcart to Modular Restaurant: The Diner on the Landscape




Fast Foods: American Food Regions




You Are Where You Eat




100 Quickies - Foods



100 Quickies - Restaurants



Maps of Restaurants


Bibliography


Index


About the Contributors


About the Editors