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Author Arndt Anderson, Heather, 1976-

Title Breakfast : a history / Heather Arndt Anderson
Published Lanham : AltaMira Press, a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 227 pages)
Series AltaMira studies in food and gastronomy
[The meals series]
Studies in food and gastronomy.
Meals series.
Contents History and Social Context -- Around the World in a Meal -- Breakfast at Home -- Breakfast Out -- Breakfast in the Arts and Media
Summary "From corn flakes to pancakes, Breakfast: A History explores this "most important meal of the day" as a social and gastronomic phenomenon. It explains how and why the meal emerged, what is eaten commonly in this meal across the globe, why certain foods are considered indispensable, and how it has been depicted in art and media. Heather Arndt Anderson's detail-rich, culturally revealing, and entertaining narrative thoroughly satisfies."-- Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-216) and index
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Subject Breakfasts -- History
Food habits -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
COOKING -- History.
Breakfasts
Food habits
Frühstück
Ess- und Trinksitte
Kultur
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021675602
ISBN 9780759121652
0759121656
1299605346
9781299605343