Description |
1 online resource (x, 333 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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Contents |
Introduction : The meeting of grain and fire -- Acorn bread : Grinding only looks easy -- Rosquetes de azucar : America, Europe, Africa -- Plumb cakes : Wheat and corn, like it or not -- Hoecake : Who ate what, and who decided that -- Raison cake : The eye was well deceived, but to the taste it was rather sour -- White mountain cake : Poverty and opulence -- Jelly roll : The modernizing South -- Chiffon pie : Civil rights and sameness -- Pastel de tres leches : The cutting edge of Southern baking |
Summary |
"While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of Southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complicated than it seems. Rebecca Sharpless here weaves a brilliant chronicle, vast in perspective and entertaining in detail, revealing how three global food traditions-Indigenous American, European, and African-collided with and merged in the economies, cultures, and foodways of the South to create what we know as the Southern baking tradition"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Rebecca Sharpless is professor of history at Texas Christian University |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Baking -- Southern States -- History
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Cooking, American -- Southern style.
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Food habits -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
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Cultural fusion -- Southern States -- History
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COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / American / Southern States
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Baking
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Cooking, American -- Southern style
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Cultural fusion
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Food habits -- Social aspects
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Manners and customs
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SUBJECT |
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- History
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Subject |
Southern States
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Project Muse. distributor.
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LC no. |
2021052597 |
ISBN |
9781469668499 |
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1469668491 |
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9781469668376 |
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1469668378 |
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