| #417382 in Books | 2005-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x1.00 x7.25l,1.99 | File type: PDF | 464 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A truly excellent food history.|By The Strife of Love in a Dream|This is one of my favorite food histories. With wit, verve, style, and surprising sensitivity, Lovegren whirls readers through the decades. The story of how American cooking got to its current stage is a fascinating one--patriotism, a desire for exotic experiences, new technological advances, Prohibition, a burgeo|From Library Journal|In recent years, the subject of food has been one primarily of seriousness verging on reverence. While that may be wholly justified, it's refreshing to have a good laugh (at ourselves) every now and then. Lovegren, an avid collector and read
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 Fashionable Food is quite literally a cookbook of the American past.
Well researched and delightfully illustrated, this collection o...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads | Sylvia Lovegren. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
