Making Modern Meals

How Americans Cook Today

Amy B. Trubek (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2017
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-28923-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Amy B. Trubek is Associate Professor of Nutrition and Food Science at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession and The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir.

List of Illustrations

Introduction: From Cook to Cooks
1. Cooking Is a Chore
2. Cooking Is an Occupation
3. Cooking Is an Art
4. Cooking Is a Craft
5. Cooking Is for Health
Conclusion

Appendix: Methods
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	California Studies in Food and Culture ; 66
Zusatzinfo	19 b-w photos, 7 charts, 1 tab
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 203 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-520-28923-4 / 0520289234
ISBN-13	978-0-520-28923-9 / 9780520289239
Zustand	Neuware