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Title Eating in Eden : food and American utopias / edited by Etta M. Madden and Martha L. Finch.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages) : illustrations.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series At table
At table series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary North America has provided a fertile setting for the development of distinctive foodways reflecting the diverse visions of life in the United States. This book explores the ways Americans have produced, consumed, avoided, and marketed food and food-related products and meanings to further their visionary ideals.
Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: New World Utopias: Cultivating Immigrant Identities through Food; 1. Pinched with Hunger, Partaking of Plenty: Fasts and Thanksgivingsin Early New England; 2. Faith, Flatulence, and Fandangos in the Spanish-American Borderlands; 3. An Appetite for America: Philip Roth's Antipastorals; 4. You Are Where You Eat: Negotiating Hindu Utopias in Atlanta; Part Two: Communal Utopias: Eating In, but Not Of, the World.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Gastronomy.
Gastronomy.
Food habits.
Food habits.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Madden, Etta M., 1962- editor.
Finch, Martha L., editor.
Other Form: Print version: Eating in Eden. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006 0803232519 9780803232518 (DLC) 2005036474 (OCoLC)62741392
ISBN 0803256442 (electronic book)
9780803256446 (electronic book)
9780803217973
0803217978