Food in the Gilded Age : What Ordinary Americans Ate.
Dirks, Robert.
Food in the Gilded Age : What Ordinary Americans Ate. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (227 pages) - Rowman and Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy Series . - Rowman and Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Photographs -- Tables -- Recipes -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Nutrition History -- Chapter 2. Mountaineers and a Nutrition Transition in Appalachia -- Chapter 3. African Americans and Soul Foods -- Chapter 4. Rich and Poor and the Seasonality of Diet -- Chapter 5. Immigrants' Diets -- Chapter 6. Contrasts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
The Gilded Age is renowned for the excesses of the robber barons and tycoons. The lavishness of their tables impressed contemporaries and historians alike. But what about the eating habits of ordinary Americans at the time? Robert Dirks answers that question by peering through the lens of what then was a newly emerging science of nutrition.
9781442245143
Diet - United States - History - 19th century.
Electronic books.
TX360.U6D57 2016
394.12097309034
Food in the Gilded Age : What Ordinary Americans Ate. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (227 pages) - Rowman and Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy Series . - Rowman and Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Photographs -- Tables -- Recipes -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Nutrition History -- Chapter 2. Mountaineers and a Nutrition Transition in Appalachia -- Chapter 3. African Americans and Soul Foods -- Chapter 4. Rich and Poor and the Seasonality of Diet -- Chapter 5. Immigrants' Diets -- Chapter 6. Contrasts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
The Gilded Age is renowned for the excesses of the robber barons and tycoons. The lavishness of their tables impressed contemporaries and historians alike. But what about the eating habits of ordinary Americans at the time? Robert Dirks answers that question by peering through the lens of what then was a newly emerging science of nutrition.
9781442245143
Diet - United States - History - 19th century.
Electronic books.
TX360.U6D57 2016
394.12097309034