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Food in the Gilded Age : What Ordinary Americans Ate.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rowman and Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (227 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442245143
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Food in the Gilded AgeDDC classification:
  • 394.12097309034
LOC classification:
  • TX360.U6D57 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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