Charleston County Public Library

American home cooking, a popular history, Tim Miller

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index

index present

non fiction

American home cooking

bibliography

967202040

Tim Miller

Rowman & Littlefield studies in food and gastronomy

a popular history

"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."--Publisher's website

Cooking in 1800 -- The early to late 1800s -- The late 1800s through 1945 -- 1945 to the early 1970s -- The early 1970s through today -- The future of home cooking