American Home Cooking (eBook)

A Popular History

Tim Miller (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
210 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-5346-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Tim Miller takes us on a fascinating tour of home cooking and eating in America – where it’s been and where it’s going – as well as a vivid accounting of our stubborn unwillingness to give it up all together in the face of easy, processed, and prepared meals.

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American Home Cooking provides an answer to the question of why, in the face of all the modern technology we have for saving time, Americans still spend time in their kitchens cooking.Americans eat four to five meals per week in a restaurant and buy millions of dollars' worth of convenience foods. Cooking, especially from scratch, is clearly on its way out. However, if this is true, why do we spend so much money on kitchen appliances both large and small? Why are so many cooking shows and cookbooks published each year if so few people actually cook?In American Home Cooking, Timothy Miller argues that there are historical reasons behind the reality of American cooking. There are some factors that, over the past two hundred years, have kept us close to our kitchens, while there are other factors that have worked to push us away from our kitchens. At one end of the cooking and eating continuum is preparing meals from scratch: all ingredients are raw and unprocessed and, in extreme cases, grown at the home. On the other end of the spectrum is dining out at a restaurant, where no cooking is done but the family is still fed. All dining experiences exist along this continuum, and Miller considers how American dining has moved along the continuum. He looks at a number of different groups and trends that have affected the state of the American kitchen, stretching back to the early 1800s. These include food and appliance companies, the restaurant industry, the home economics movement of the early 20th century, and reform movements such as the counterculture of the 1960s and the religious reform movements of the 1800s. And yet the kitchen is still, most often, the center of the home and the place where most people expect to cook and eat - even if they don't.

Autor

Tim Miller is an associate professor of history at Labette Community College in Parsons, Kansas. He previously published his dissertation on changes in the foods eaten in American suburbs after World War II, which explored some of the themes he looks at in this book, including the rise of the processed food industry and changing expectations for women in the household. He writes about all aspects of American food history on his blog Grog to Grits. He is also the author of Barbecue: A History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).

Inhalt

Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Cooking in 1800Chapter 2: The Early to Late 1800sChapter 3: The Late 1800s Through 1945Chapter 4: 1945 to the early 1970sChapter 5: The Early 1970s Through TodayChapter 6: The Future of Home CookingBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-5346-0 / 1442253460
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-5346-9 / 9781442253469