An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States

by Lauren F. Klein and Lauren F. Klein

Book Overview

A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature

There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher but also a methodological challenge, in that there is no eating--or, at least, no food--preserved among the printed records of the early United States. Synthesizing a range of textual artifacts with accounts (both real and imagined) of foods...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517905095
• ISBN13: 9781517905095
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"