Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads | Lovegren Sylvia | Keménykötésű

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ENbook.hu

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Univ Of Chicago Pr

Though the Roaring Twenties call to mind images of flappers dancing the Charleston and gangsters dispensing moonshine in back rooms, Sylvia Lovegren here playfully reminds us what these characters ate for dinner Banana and Popcorn Salad. Like fashions and fads, food--even bad food--has a history, and Lovegren's iFashionable Foodi is quite literally a cookbook of the American past. pWell researched and delightfully illustrated, this collection of faddish recipes from the 1920s to the 1990s is a decade-by-decade tour of a hungry American century. From the Three P's Salad--that's peas, pickles, and peanuts--of the post-World War I era to the Fruit Cocktail and Spam Buffet Party loaf--all the rage in the ultra-modern 1950s, when cooking from a can epitomized culinary sophisticationi--Fashionable Foodi details the origins of these curious delicacies. In two chapters devoted to exotic foods of the East, for example, Lovegren explores the long American love affair with Chinese food and the so

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