by Hasia R. Diner From the publisher: Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not by the mythic streets paved with gold, but rather by its tables heaped with […]
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How Italian Food Conquered the World
by John F. Mariani From the publisher: Not so long ago, Italian food was regarded as a poor man’s gruel-little more than pizza, macaroni with sauce, and red wines in […]
Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate
by Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris From the publisher: In Hometown Appetites, Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris come together to revive the legacy of the most important food writer you […]
History of Howard Johnson’s: How a Massachusetts Soda Fountain Became an American Icon
by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco From the publisher: Howard Johnson created an orange-roofed empire of ice cream stands and restaurants that stretched from Maine to Florida and all the way to […]
History of Cooks and Cooking
by Michael Symons From the publisher: Never has there been so little need to cook. Yet Michael Symons maintains that to be truly human we need to become better cooks: […]
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s
by Ray Kroc From the publisher: Few entrepreneurs can claim to have radically changed the way we live, and Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food-service automation, […]
Frozen in Time: Clarence Birdseye’s Outrageous Idea about Frozen Food
by Mark Kurlansky From the publisher: Adventurer and inventor Clarence Birdseye had a fascination with food preservation that led him to develop and patent the Birdseye freezing process and start […]
From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000
edited by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank From the publisher: Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected […]
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
by Andrea Wulf From the publisher: For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for […]
Founding Foodies
by Dave DeWitt From the publisher: Who Were the Original Foodies? Beyond their legacy as revolutionaries and politicians, the Founding Fathers of America were first and foremost a group of […]