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Setting the table for Julia Child : gourmet dining in America, 1934-1961
- Title
- Setting the table for Julia Child : gourmet dining in America, 1934-1961 / David Strauss.
- Author
- Strauss, David, 1937-
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 324 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Gourmets > United States > History > 20th century
- Gourmet
- Food > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century
- Cooking, American > History > 20th century
- Dinners and dining > United States > History > 20th century
- United States > Social life and customs > 1918-1945
- United States > Social life and customs > 1945-1970
- Food habits > United States > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Food fights in twentieth-century America : the good life versus the healthy life -- Building a foundation for gourmet dining in America -- Origins, rituals, and menus of gourmet dining societies, 1934-1961 -- Selectivity and publicity in the gourmet dining movement -- Beating the Nazis with truffles and tripe : the early years of "Gourmet : the magazine of good living" -- Gourmet's gastronomic tours : Samuel Chamberlain and his bouquets -- From readers to cooks? : the impact of Gourmet/gourmet recipes -- Julia and Simca : a Franco-American culinary alliance.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-2103
- ISBN
- 9780801897733 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0801897734 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010015272
- OCLC
- YBP 2010015272
- Author
- Strauss, David, 1937-
- Title
- Setting the table for Julia Child : gourmet dining in America, 1934-1961 / David Strauss.
- Imprint
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-2103