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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James E McWilliams |
| ISBN: | 0231129920 9780231129923 9780231129930 0231129939 |
| OCLC Number: | 56942105 |
| Description: | 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Arts and traditions of the table. |
| Responsibility: | James E. McWilliams. |
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The lucid style and jaunty tone...make this accessible to all. Publishers Weekly 4/25/05 Delicious from start to finish. Kirkus Reviews 5/1/05 Meticulously researched and packed with fascinating detail, this book provides an excellent account of the culinary development of Colonial America. Library Journal 4/29/05 A Revolution in Eating, a lively new tour of Colonial American 'foodways.' -- Joshua Glenn Boston Globe 7/10/05 Flexibility, even tolerance may well have contributed to the uniqueness of American food, according to historian McWilliams in this extremely rich, readable book. The FOOD Museum Online 7/7/05 Fascinating...Anyone curious about the cultural history of that meatloaf on the dinner plate will gobble it up. -- Tina Jordan Entertainment Weekly 8/12/05 McWilliams presents a colorful and spirited tour of culinary attitudes, tastes, and techniques through out colonial America. Staten Island Star Reporter 8/10/05 McWilliams's examination of the culinary history of Colonial America is more than a... gastronomic tour... A lively and informative read. New Yorker 9/5/05 [A] fresh perspective is well worth the read. Instead of learning our origins through a well-worn trail of war and peace on a time line, it takes us on a more pleasant route from pewter spoon to mouth. -- Shelley Preston Ledger 8/14/05 A Revolution in Eating gives its readers much to chew over, and whets the appetite for further work on the development of American Cooking. -- Claire Hopley The Washington Times 8/28/05 McWilliams has penned an illuminating account of the evolution of foodways in the colonial Americas. -- Josh Friedland Washington Post Book World 10/23/05 Pleasingly filling. -- Susannah Meadows New York Times Book Review 11/13/05 For the cook who likes history or the history buff who likes to cook. -- Linda Bassett Georgetown Record 10/13/05 McWilliams vividly illustrates the intimate knowledge and relationship colonial Americans had with their food. -- Claudia Kousoulas Books-for-cooks.com: Appetite for Books ? McWilliam's perspective... provides an essential link from the past to the present and into the future. It's a fascinating foray. Dona's Kitchen Kapers 11/1/05 McWilliams manages to be simultaneously instructive and entertaining. -- MM Pack Austin Chronicle 12/16/2005 McWilliams brings colonial times to life through vivid detail. -- William R. Wood Kalamazoo Gazette 1/2/06 Don't let the fact that its publisher is Columbia University Press fool you into thinking this is a book for scholars only. -- Margot Cleary Daily Hampshire Gazette 2/3/2006 McWilliams manages to show food and drink as an integral part of history... Recommended. Choice 6/1/2006 [An] exciting work of comparative colonial history. Journal of Popular Culture 10/1/2006 McWilliams has contributed a valuable book to early American history. -- Michael A. LaCombe The Journal of Southern History 11/1/2006 A lively investigation of Colonial eating habits and how they shaped the revolutionary views of the new Americans. -- Paulette Beete American Spirit March/April '07 Read more...
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