Title United tastes : the making of the first American cookbook / Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald

Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 351 pages) Contents Part 1. Cooks and books. Adapted to this country -- Culinary tradition -- Print culture -- Part 2. Connecticut. Society and nationality -- Domestic culture -- Agriculture, fishing, horticulture -- Part 3. American cookery, by an American Orphan -- The cookbook -- The author and the printers -- The readers and the editions Summary "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."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Simmons, Amelia. American cookery. SUBJECT Simmons, Amelia. American cookery American cookery (Simmons, Amelia) fast Subject Cooking -- United States -- History -- 18th century Cooking -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources Cooking, American -- Early works to 1800 COOKING -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- General. Cookbooks Cooking Cooking, American Manners and customs SUBJECT United States -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140527 Subject United States Genre/Form Early works History Sources Form Electronic book Author Fitzgerald, Kathleen, 1952- author. ISBN 9781613765579 1613765576

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