America Eats: Forms of Edible Folk Art

by William Woys Weaver

Book Overview

America Eating forms of Edible Folk Art. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060964138
• ISBN13: 9780060964139
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

American Cooking + Folk Art Cooking Implements + Historical Recipes and Advertising Trends = This Bo

William Woys Weaver is interested in what we ate, how we prepared it, and what these processes say about American culture. From the author of "A 300 Year History of Philadelphia Cookery" and "Sauerkraut Yankees" comes this unique book. "America Eats is about the culinary heart of the the American people. It is about the relationship of folk cookery, the cookery of the common man, to folk art and the kinship these two ideas share when they come together in the American kitchen." "This book connects what is known about American folk cooking -- the implements, the ideas, the recipes, and the cooking technique -- with what these things have meant to American cooks..." 50 color and 40 b & w illustrations including: - Afro-American coil baskets used with Fried Peaches - antique aspic molds and other implements that create design patterns on foods (cake pans, cake prints, biscuit molds, candy molds...) - stoneware, yelloware, redstone, ironstone... Lots of bibliographic information: End Notes, a 5 page Bibligraphy, Collector's Guide to Objects Illustrated in This Book, Recipe Index, Subject Index.