Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture

Contents: 

• Introduction.
• Words About Food
• The Best-Fed People in the World : American Cookbooks in the Nineteenth Century
• An Appetite for Innovation : Cookbooks Before the Second World War
• Gourmet Is a Boy : Midcentury Cookbooks and Food Magazines
• Mastering the Art of American Cooking : Julia Child and American Cookbooks
• Oppositional Appetites : Cookbooks and the Counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s
• The Palate of Personality : Chefs and Cookbooks at the End of the Twentieth Century
• Origin Stories : A New Discourse in Twenty-First-Century Cookbooks
• Epilogue. What Should We Read for Dinner?