The Chicago Food Encyclopedia is a far-ranging portrait of an American culinary paradise. Hundreds of entries deliver all of the visionary restauranteurs, Michelin superstars, beloved haunts, and food companies of today and yesterday. More than 100 sumptuous images include thirty full-color photographs that transport readers to dining rooms and food stands across the city. Throughout, a roster of writers, scholars, and industry experts pays tribute to an expansive--and still expanding--food history that not only helped build Chicago but fed a growing nation. Pizza. Alinea. Wrigley Spearmint. Soul food. Rick Bayless. Hot Dogs. Koreatown. Everest. All served up A-Z, and all part of the ultimate reference on Chicago and its food.
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• A matter of class : food in the United States, 1870-1900 / by Katherine Leonard Turner
• Seeing the Gilded Age through its recipes
• Mrs. Mary F. Henderson, practical cooking and dinner giving (1877)
• Selected advice on table manners (1870-1903)
• Handwritten recipe manuscript (1870s ad 1880s)
• Mrs. Peter A. White, the Kentucky housewife : a collection of recipes for cooking (1885)
• Christine Terhune Herrick, what to eat, how to serve it (1891)
• Dietary studies fromn Alabama, New York, Chicago, Virginia, and New Mexico (1895-18997)
• Gilded Age banquet menus (1880-1899)
• Fannie Farmer, the Boston Cooking School Cookbook (1896).

What is American food? From barbecue to Jell-O molds to burrito bowls, its history spans a vast patchwork of traditions, crazes, and quirks. A close look at these foods and the recipes behind them unearths a vivid map of American foodways: how Americans thought about food, how they described it, and what foods were in and out of style at different times. In Food on the Page, the first comprehensive history of American cookbooks, Megan J. Elias chronicles cookbook publishing from the early 1800s to the present day. Following food writing through trends such as the Southern nostalgia that emerged in the late nineteenth century, the Francophilia of the 1940s, countercultural cooking in the 1970s, and today's cult of locally sourced ingredients, she reveals that what we read about food influences us just as much as what we taste. Examining a wealth of fascinating archival material-and rediscovering several all-American culinary delicacies and oddities in the process-Elias explores the role words play in the creation of taste on both a personal and a national level. From Fannie Farmer to The Joy of Cooking to food blogs, she argues, American cookbook writers have commented on national cuisine while tempting their readers to the table. By taking cookbooks seriously as a genre and by tracing their genealogy, Food on the Page explains where contemporary assumptions about American food came from and where they might lead.
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In this entertaining history, Gregory McNamee explores the many ethnic and cultural traditions that have contributed to the food of the Southwest. He traces the origins of the cuisine to the arrival of humans in the Americas, the work of the earliest farmers of Mesoamerica, and the most ancient trade networks joining peoples of the coast, plains, and mountains. From the ancient chile pepper and agave to the comparatively recent fare of sushi and Frito pie, this complex culinary journey involves many players over space and time. Born of scarcity, migration, and climate change, these foods are now fully at home in the Southwest of today-and with the "southwesternization" of the American palate at large, they are found across the globe. McNamee extends that story across thousands of years to the present, even imagining what the southwestern menu will look like in the near future.
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• Estrategia regional de seguridad alimentaria y nutricional, 2016-2021
• Plan regional de seguridad alimentaria y nutricional, 2016-2021.

• Recipe contributors
• Ancestor cooks
• Stirring up memories
• Recipes
• Breads
• Main dishes
• Vegetables and sides
• Desserts
• Cakes
• Cookies
• Pies and cobblers
• Puddings
• Other desserts
• Extras
• Preserving heirloom recipes
• Resources
• Map of Texas counties
• Collecting heirloom recipes: questions for the cook
• Deciphering obscure terms in older recipes
• Additional information
• Sites and events
• Books
• Other media
• Organizations
• Recipe index.

Join Nola McKey, former editor at Texas Highways, on a journey through Texas history-through food! In this collection of morethan one hundred recipes, Texans share the dishes they inheritedfrom their ancestors and the family stories and traditionsthat accompany them. With a strong focus on Texas' culturaldiversity-featuring Polish cheese pie, Czech sauerkraut, Chinesefried rice, Mexican caldo, Italian pizzelle, African American purple hull peas, and German egg noodles-McKey documents theculinary impact of immigrants from around the globe. But thisbook is not for foodies alone; history enthusiasts will appreciatethe snapshots of daily Texan life, captured in the narrativesaccompanying the recipes and spanning more than a century. Toldprimarily in the words of today's cooks, these multigenerationalfamily memories can take anyone on a trip down memory lane, back to a beloved grandmother's kitchen or great-aunt's holidaytable. Included are recommendations for Texas museums andfestivals where interested readers can learn more about many ofthe foods and cultures featured in this book. Additionally, McKeyprovides tips for preserving your own family recipes and forrecording the heritage surrounding a special dish. Illustrated withfamily photos and original watercolors by Cora McKown, FromTea Cakes to Tamales will quickly itself become a Texan familyheirloom.
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Today we care about the source of our food as much as the preparation, so it is no surprise that foodies have discovered wild edibles. From the most upscale restaurants in New York to humble farm stays in Europe, chefs and restaurant-goers alike are seeking pleasure in food found in the wild. In Pursuit of Wild Edibles: A Forager's Tour tells the story of one man passionate about finding wild edibles and creating recipes to highlight their unique flavors. An American expatriate, poet, and gourmet living in France, Jeffrey Greene has scoured the fields, rivers, and beaches of Europe and his native New England in search of foods ranging from puffballs and periwinkles to stone pine nuts and gooseneck barnacles. For many, foraging is the latest trend in foodie culture, but for Greene this journey stretches back to his childhood, when his parents fled New York City to a shack-like house in rural Connecticut. Convinced they could live off the land, the family raised goats, planted gardens, gathered seafood at the nearby coast, and foraged for food from the woods. Inspired by these childhood experiences, Greene and his wife, Mary, bought and restored an old priory in rural Burgundy. Surrounded by forests, they learned to identify mushrooms and greens, and devoted themselves to inventing recipes for them. Thus began a pursuit that took Greene to the Polish Carpathians, the Appennines overlooking the Ligurian coast, the shores of Normandy and Brittany, and to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the Pilgrims eked out their first winter in near starvation. Greene's captivating book offers experienced foragers and novices alike an extensive sampling of his own recipes and a chance to come along with him on his international adventures. From razor clams and wild sea urchins, to young nettles and dandelion greens, to wild strawberries and cherries, Greene showcases the beauty of what one can cook up in a truly wild recipe.
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Nearly thirty years ago, cooking team Frank and Jayni Carey gave us The Kansas Cookbook: Recipes from the Heartland, a classic, much-loved volume chronicling the state's favorite recipes and food traditions. Now they're back with The New Kansas Cookbook: Rural Roots, Modern Table, a look at modern and innovative foodways straight from their kitchen in the heart of the Midwest. They combine fresh ingredients from farmer's markets with fresh ideas and Kansas know-how from across the state to create a dynamic new food scene. From modern makeovers of Midwestern mainstays like sloppy joes and sweet custards to dishes influenced by a wide variety of world cuisines, these recipes bring Kansas tradition into the twenty-first century with a new burst of flavor and sense of fun.The Careys travel the state stirring stories and recipes from farmers, ranchers, chefs, and home cooks into the diverse pot of Kansas cuisine. They partake in the bounty of small-town eateries, homey fare-like zucchini and corn casserole or slow-cooked pork shoulder-and dressier offerings like smoked duck empanadas, rainbow trout with a spicy crust, and roasted pork tenderloin with port and prunes.Kansans seem to live closer to the land, so the Careys introduce you to those who are enjoying the fruits of their own labors: growing the best asparagus, raising grass-fed beef, nurturing a school garden, and dealing with too much zucchini. Illustrations by noted Kansas artist Louis Copt bring these ingredients, recipes, and stories alive.Farm-to-table may be trendy elsewhere, but it's a way of life in Kansas, and in The New Kansas Cookbook, Frank and Jayni Carey show you how to make it yours, too.
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• Appetizers, spreads, and salads
• Savory pastries
• Eggs and fritters
• Soups
• Rice, pasta, and grains
• Vegetables
• Fish
• Poultry
• Meat
• Preserves and condiments
• Desserts
• Pantry ingredients.

For thousands of years, the people of the Jewish Diaspora have carried their culinary traditions and kosher laws throughout the world. In the United States, this has resulted primarily in an Ashkenazi table of matzo ball soup and knishes, brisket and gefilte fish. But Joyce Goldstein is now expanding that menu with this comprehensive collection of over four hundred recipes from the kitchens of three Mediterranean Jewish cultures: the Sephardic, the Maghrebi, and the Mizrahi. The New Mediterranean Jewish Table is an authoritative guide to Jewish home cooking from North Africa, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, and the Middle East. It is a treasury filled with vibrant, seasonal recipes-both classic and updated-that embrace fresh fruits and vegetables; grains and legumes; small portions of meat, poultry, and fish; and a healthy mix of herbs and spices. It is also the story of how Jewish cooks successfully brought the local ingredients, techniques, and traditions of their new homelands into their kitchens. With this varied and appealing selection of Mediterranean Jewish recipes, Joyce Goldstein promises to inspire new generations of Jewish and non-Jewish home cooks alike with dishes for everyday meals and holiday celebrations.
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Part guide, part cookbook, and peppered with informative visuals, this book tells us why pulses are such an important food for the future, explains how to cook them, and includes over 30 recipes prepared by some of the world's most prestigious chefs. Part I gives an overview of pulses and a brief guide to the main varieties. Part II explains step-by-step how to cook them, and what condiments and instruments to use. Part III underscores five messages about the impact of pulses on nutrition, health, climate change, biodiversity and food security. Part IV illustrates how pulses can be grown in a garden patch with easy gardening instructions and shows how they are grown across the world, highlighting major producers, importers and exporters. Part V takes the reader on a journey around the planet, showing how pulses tie in with regional history and culture, and accompanies 10 internationally acclaimed chefs as they go the market to buy pulses. Back at their restaurant or home, the chefs prepare easy dishes and share their best kept secrets, each one providing 3 recipes that are beautifully illustrated.
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• Introduction : Dining Out in Boston
• Filet de Boeuf at the Tremont House : Luxury Hotel Dining Rooms
• Bolted Beef and Bolted Pudding : Eating Houses
• Charlotte Russe in the Afternoon : Elite Ladies' Eateries
• Roast, Chop Suey, and Beer : Cafes
• Epilogue : Ice Cream at Howard Johnson's
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index.

"Before the 1820s, the vast majority of Americans ate only at home. As the nation began to urbanize and industrialize, home and work became increasingly divided, resulting in new forms of commercial dining. In this fascinating book, Kelly Erby explores the evolution of such eating alternatives in Boston over the nineteenth century. Why Boston? Its more modest assortment of restaurants, its less impressive--but still significant--expansion in commerce and population, and its growing diversity made it more typical of the nation's other urban centers than New York. Restaurants, clearly segmented along class, gender, race, ethnic, and other lines, helped Bostonians become more comfortable with deepening social stratification in their city and young republic even as the experience of eating out contributed to an emerging public consumer culture. Restaurant Republic sheds light on how commercial dining both reflected and helped shape growing fragmentation along lines of race, class, and gender--from the elite Tremont House, which served fashionable French cuisine, to such plebian and ethnic venues as oyster saloons and Chinese chop suey houses. The epilogue takes us to the opening, in 1929, near Boston, of the nation's first Howard Johnson's, and that restaurant's establishment as a franchise in the next decade. The result is a compelling story that continues to shape America"-- Provided by publisher.

• Why we love one-pot meals
• Heritage entrées
• Soups for the soul
• Barbecuing and grilling in the South
• Farm-to-table vegetables
• King corn bread and other traditional southern breads
• Country cakes
• Something sweet
• Sitting on the porch with sweet teas and other thirst quenchers.

Soul Food Advisor reveals the secrets of perfecting southern cooking, one dish at a time.

• Introduction : sensing food in the New Deal era
• America eats : the making of a sensory archive
• Romance of the homemade
• Tasting place, sensing race
• An American culinary heritage? Mexican food in the Southwest
• A "well-filled melting pot"
• Conclusion : how taste is made.

During the Depression, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) dispatched scribes to sample the fare at group eating events like church dinners, political barbecues, and clambakes. Its America Eats project sought nothing less than to sample, and report upon, the tremendous range of foods eaten across the United States. Camille Begin shapes a cultural and sensory history of New Deal-era eating from the FWP archives. From "ravioli, the diminutive derbies of pastries, the crowns stuffed with a well-seasoned paste" to barbeque seasoning that integrated "salt, black pepper, dried red chili powder, garlic, oregano, cumin seed, and cayenne pepper" while "tomatoes, green chili peppers, onions, and olive oil made up the sauce", Begin describes in mouth-watering detail how Americans tasted their food. They did so in ways that varied, and varied widely, depending on race, ethnicity, class, and region. Begin explores how likes and dislikes, cravings and disgust operated within local sensory economies that she culls from the FWP's vivid descriptions, visual cues, culinary expectations, recipes and accounts of restaurant meals. She illustrates how nostalgia, prescriptive gender ideals, and racial stereotypes shaped how the FWP was able to frame regional food cultures as "American.".
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• A global slurp: naengmyeon noodles
• Food for the ancestors: jeon pancakes
• Two colonizations and three migrations: grilling galbi
• A taste of diversity: the bibimbap rice bowl.

Can food be both national and global at the same time? What happens when a food with a national identity travels beyond the boundaries of a nation? What makes a food authentically national and yet American or broader global? With these questions in mind, Sonia Ryang explores the world of Korean food in four American locations, Iowa City, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Hawaii (Kona and Honolulu). Ryang visits restaurants and grocery stores in each location and observes Korean food as it is prepared and served to customers. She analyzes the history and evolution of each dish, how it arrived and what it became, but above all, she tastes and experiences her food - four items to be specific - naengmyeon cold noodle soup; jeon pancakes; galbi barbecued beef; and bibimbap, rice with mixed vegetable. In her ethnographic journey, Ryang discovers how the chewy noodles from Pyongyang continue to retain their texture and yet are served differently in different locales. Jeon pancakes become completely decontextualized in the United States and metamorphosed into a portable and packable carry-out food. American consumers are unaware of the pancakeAEs sacred origin.In Hawaii, Ryang fi nds that it is the Vietnamese restaurant that serves unexpectedly delicious galbi barbecued meat. Intertwined in the complex colonial and postcolonial contexts, Korean galbi and Japanese yakiniku can be found side by side on the streets of Honolulu frequented by both the locals and tourists. In writing Eating Korean in America: Gastronomic Ethnography of Authenticity , Sonia Ryang is as much an eater as a researcher. Her accounts of the cities and their distinctive take on Korean food are at once entertaining and insightful, yet deeply moving. Ryang challenges the reader to stop and think about the food we eat every day in close connection to colonial histories, ethnic displacements, and global capitalism.
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• Introduction
• Public
• Private
• Beginnings
• Endings
• Rich
• Poor
• Fortune
• Failure
• Coda.

What is a hotel? As Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl show us in this thought-provoking book, even though hotels are everywhere around us, we rarely consider their essential role in our modern existence and how they help frame our sense of who and what we are. They are, in fact, as centrally important as other powerful places like prisons, hospitals, or universities. More than simply structures made of steel, concrete, and glass, hotels are social and political institutions that we invest with overlapping and contradictory meaning. These alluring places uniquely capture the realities of our world, where the lines between public and private, labor and leisure, fortune and failure, desire and despair are regularly blurred. Guiding readers through the story of hotels as places of troublesome possibility, as mazelike physical buildings, as inspirational touchstones for art and literature, and as unsettling, even disturbing, backdrops for the drama of everyday life, Levander and Guterl ensure that we will never think about this seemingly ordinary place in the same way again.
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• Nineteenth-century cookbooks : breaking a stereotype
• 1900-1925, surviving mammyism : cooking lessons for work and home
• 1926-1950, the servant problem : dual messages
• 1951-1960, lifting as we climb : tea cakes, finger sandwiches, community service, and civil rights
• 1961-1970, soul food : mama's cooking leaves home for the city
• 1971-1980, simple pleasures : a soul food revival
• 1981-1990, mammy's makeover : the ever useful life
• 1991-2011, the hope of Jemima.

Women of African descent have contributed to America s food culture for centuries, but their rich and varied involvement is still overshadowed by the demeaning stereotype of an illiterate Aunt Jemima who cooked mostly by natural instinct. To discover the true role of black women in the creation of American, and especially southern, cuisine, Toni Tipton-Martin has spent years amassing one of the world s largest private collections of cookbooks published by African American authors, looking for evidence of their impact on American food, families, and communities and for ways we might use that knowledge to inspire community wellness of every kind."The Jemima Code" presents more than 150 black cookbooks that range from a rare 1827 house servant s manual, the first book published by an African American in the trade, to modern classics by authors such as Edna Lewis and Vertamae Grosvenor. The books are arranged chronologically and illustrated with photos of their covers; many also display selected interior pages, including recipes. Tipton-Martin provides notes on the authors and their contributions and the significance of each book, while her chapter introductions summarize the cultural history reflected in the books that follow. These cookbooks offer firsthand evidence that African Americans cooked creative masterpieces from meager provisions, educated young chefs, operated food businesses, and nourished the African American community through the long struggle for human rights. "The Jemima Code" transforms America s most maligned kitchen servant into an inspirational and powerful model of culinary wisdom and cultural authority.".
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• The collection : African American cookbooks, 1827-2011
• 19th century cookbooks : cookbooks break a stereotype
• 1900-1925, surviving mammyism
• 1926-1950, the servant problem : dual messages
• 1951-1960, lifting as we climb : tea cakes, finger sandwiches, community service, and civil rights
• 1961-1970, soul food : mama's cooking leaves home for the city
• 1971-1980, simple pleasures and the soul food revival
• 1981-1990, mammy's makeover : the ever useful life
• 1991-2011, the hope of Jemima.

Women of African descent have contributed to America s food culture for centuries, but their rich and varied involvement is still overshadowed by the demeaning stereotype of an illiterate Aunt Jemima who cooked mostly by natural instinct. To discover the true role of black women in the creation of American, and especially southern, cuisine, Toni Tipton-Martin has spent years amassing one of the world s largest private collections of cookbooks published by African American authors, looking for evidence of their impact on American food, families, and communities and for ways we might use that knowledge to inspire community wellness of every kind."The Jemima Code" presents more than 150 black cookbooks that range from a rare 1827 house servant s manual, the first book published by an African American in the trade, to modern classics by authors such as Edna Lewis and Vertamae Grosvenor. The books are arranged chronologically and illustrated with photos of their covers; many also display selected interior pages, including recipes. Tipton-Martin provides notes on the authors and their contributions and the significance of each book, while her chapter introductions summarize the cultural history reflected in the books that follow. These cookbooks offer firsthand evidence that African Americans cooked creative masterpieces from meager provisions, educated young chefs, operated food businesses, and nourished the African American community through the long struggle for human rights. "The Jemima Code" transforms America s most maligned kitchen servant into an inspirational and powerful model of culinary wisdom and cultural authority.".
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Cooking recipes from Maharashtra, India.

• Setting a course
• Organizing and protecting your materials
• Adjusting recipes
• Working with regional or world recipes
• Interviews and cooking visits
• Orphaned recipes and conducting research
• Sharing family recipes and foodways.

Heirloom dishes and family food traditions are rich sources of nostalgia and provide vivid ways to learn about our families' past, yet they can be problematic. Many family recipes and food traditions are never documented in written or photographic form, existing only as unwritten know-how and lore that vanishes when a cook dies. Even when recipes are written down, they often fail to give the tricks and tips that would allow another cook to accurately replicate the dish. Unfortunately, recipes are also often damaged as we plunk Grandma's handwritten cards on the countertop next to a steaming pot or a spattering mixer, shortening their lives. This book is a guide for gathering, adjusting, supplementing, and safely preservingfamily recipes and for interviewing relatives, collecting oral histories, and conducting kitchen visits to document family food traditions from the everyday to special occasions. It blends commonsense tips with sound archival principles, helping you achieve effective results while avoiding unnecessary pitfalls. Chaptersare also dedicated to unfamiliar regional or ethnic cooking challenges, as well as to working with recipes that are "orphans, " surrogates, or terribly outdated. Whether you simply want to save a few accurate recipes, help yesterday's foodways evolve so they are relevant for today's table, or create an extensive family cookbook, this guidebook will help you to savor your memories.
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