How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture

by Jennifer Jensen Wallach and Dashka Slater

Book Overview

How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture, by food and social historian Jennifer Wallach, sheds a new and interesting light on American history by way of the dinner table. It is, at once, a study of America's diverse culinary history and a look at the country's unique and unprecedented journey to the present day. While undeniably a "melting pot" of different cultures and cuisines, America's food habits have been shaped as much by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442232188
• ISBN13: 9781442232181
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary