A revolution in eating : how the quest for food shaped America
Sugar, pork, beer, corn, cider, scrapple, and hoppin' John all became staples in the diet of colonial America. The ways Americans cultivated and prepared food and the values they attributed to it played an important role in shaping the identity of the newborn nation. In A Revolution in Eating, James E. McWilliams presents a colorful and spirited tour of culinary attitudes, tastes, and techniques throughout colonial America. Confronted by strange new animals, plants, and landscapes, settlers in the colonies and West Indies found new ways to produce food. Integrating their British an
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1 online resource (386 pages) : illustrations
9780231503488, 9780231129923, 0231503482, 0231129920
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Adaptability: The Bittersweet Culinary History of the English West Indies
Traditionalism: The Greatest Accomplishment of Colonial New England
Negotiation: Living High and Low on the Hog in the Chesapeake Bay Region
Wilderness: The Fruitless Search for Culinary Order in Carolina
Diversity: Refined Crudeness in the Middle Colonies
Consumption: The British Invasion
Intoxication: Finding Common Bonds in an Alcoholic Empire
Revolution: A Culinary Declaration of Independence
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