Trubek Amy B.
Trubek Amy B. - Making Modern Meals How Americans Cook Today - Paperback
Trubek Amy B. - Making Modern Meals How Americans Cook Today - Paperback
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Description: Home cooking is crucial to our lives but it is not necessary to our survival. Over the past century it has become an everyday choice even though it is no longer an everyday chore. By looking closely at the stories and practices of American home cooks - witnessing them in the kitchen and at the table - Amy B. Trubek reveals our episodic but also engaged relationship to making meals. Making Modern Meals explores the state of American cooking across all its varied practices whether cooking is considered a chore a craft or a creative process. Trubek challenges current assumptions about who cooks who doesn't cook and what this means for culture cuisine and health. Contending that cooking has changed in the past century she locates identifies and discusses the myriad ways Americans cook in the modern age. In doing so she argues that changes in making our meals - from shopping to cooking to dining - have created new cooks new cooking categories and new culinary challenges.
Title: Making Modern Meals How Americans Cook Today
Author(s): Trubek Amy B.
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520289239
Pages: 320 Pages, 19 B-W Photos, 7 Charts, 1 Tab
Publication Date: 10/24/2017
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Category: Cookery / Food & Drink Etc
Description: Home cooking is crucial to our lives but it is not necessary to our survival. Over the past century it has become an everyday choice even though it is no longer an everyday chore. By looking closely at the stories and practices of American home cooks - witnessing them in the kitchen and at the table - Amy B. Trubek reveals our episodic but also engaged relationship to making meals. Making Modern Meals explores the state of American cooking across all its varied practices whether cooking is considered a chore a craft or a creative process. Trubek challenges current assumptions about who cooks who doesn't cook and what this means for culture cuisine and health. Contending that cooking has changed in the past century she locates identifies and discusses the myriad ways Americans cook in the modern age. In doing so she argues that changes in making our meals - from shopping to cooking to dining - have created new cooks new cooking categories and new culinary challenges.
Title: Making Modern Meals How Americans Cook Today
Author(s): Trubek Amy B.
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520289239
Pages: 320 Pages, 19 B-W Photos, 7 Charts, 1 Tab
Publication Date: 10/24/2017
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Category: Cookery / Food & Drink Etc
