United Tastes
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18th-century American cookbooks
18th-century cookbooks
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Amelia Simmons
American Cookery 1796
American Cookery historical analysis
American culinary classics
American culinary tradition
American food
American food and culture
American food culture in the 18th century
American food history
American food traditions
American identity and food
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cookbooks as cultural texts
cookbooks in American history
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culinary history and American identity
culinary history of America
culinary traditions in early America
cultural significance of American Cookery
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development of American cuisine
early American cookbooks
early American culinary practices
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first American cookbook
food and American history
food and identity in early America
food and literature in America
food and national identity
food and the American Revolution
food as cultural expression
food culture post-Revolutionary America
food in the American Revolution
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history of American cookbooks
history of food in early America
history of food in the U.S.
history of taste in America
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Library of Congress Books That Shaped America
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role of food in American culture
significance of American Cookery
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the cultural history of food
Product details
- ISBN 9781625343222
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 555g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2017
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The Library of Congress has designated American Cookery (1796) by Amelia Simmons one of the eighty-eight ""Books That Shaped America."" Its recognition as ""the first American cookbook"" has attracted an enthusiastic modern audience of historians, food journalists, and general readers, yet until now American Cookery has not received the sustained scholarly attention it deserves. Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald's United Tastes fills this gap by providing a detailed examination of the social circumstances and culinary tradition that produced this American classic.
Situating American Cookery within the post-Revolutionary effort to develop a distinct national identity, Stavely and Fitzgerald demonstrate the book's significance in cultural as well as culinary terms. Ultimately the separation between these categories dissolves as the authors show that the formation of ""taste,"" in matters of food as well as other material expressions, was essential to building a consensus on what it was to be American. United Tastes explores multiple histories - of food, cookbooks, printing, material and literary culture, and region - to illuminate the meaning and affirm the importance of America's first cookbook.
Situating American Cookery within the post-Revolutionary effort to develop a distinct national identity, Stavely and Fitzgerald demonstrate the book's significance in cultural as well as culinary terms. Ultimately the separation between these categories dissolves as the authors show that the formation of ""taste,"" in matters of food as well as other material expressions, was essential to building a consensus on what it was to be American. United Tastes explores multiple histories - of food, cookbooks, printing, material and literary culture, and region - to illuminate the meaning and affirm the importance of America's first cookbook.
Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald are authors of Northern Hospitality: Cooking by the Book in New England (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011).
