LEADER 00000cam a22006734a 4500 001 muse81802 003 MdBmJHUP 005 20210915045828.0 006 m o d 007 cr||||||||nn|n 008 200518s2020 mdu o 00 0 eng d 020 9781452963945 020 1452963940 020 |z9781517905095 040 MdBmJHUP|beng|cMdBmJHUP 043 n-us--- 049 RIDW 050 4 GT2853.U5|bK59 2020 082 0 394.1/20973|223 090 GT2853.U5|bK59 2020 100 1 Klein, Lauren F.,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ nb2017022750|eauthor. 245 13 An Archive of Taste|bRace and Eating in the Early United States /|cLauren F. Klein. 264 1 Baltimore, Maryland :|bProject Muse,|c2020. 264 3 Baltimore, Md. :|bProject MUSE, |c2020. 264 4 |c©2020 300 1 online resource (xii, 236 pages) :|billustrations 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 text file|2rdaft 500 Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index. 505 0 Introduction : no eating in the archive -- Taste : eating and aesthetics in the early United States -- Appetite : eating, embodiment, and the tasteful subject -- Satisfaction : aesthetics, speculation, and the theory of cookbooks -- Imagination : food, fiction, and the limits of taste -- Absence : slavery and silence in the archive of eating -- Epilogue : two portraits of taste. 506 0 Open Access|fUnrestricted online access|2star 520 There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher but also a methodological challenge, in that there is no eating--or, at least, no food--preserved among the printed records of the early United States. Synthesizing a range of textual artifacts with accounts (both real and imagined) of foods harvested, dishes prepared, and meals consumed, An Archive of Taste reveals how a focus on eating allows us to rethink the nature and significance of aesthetics in early America, as well as of its archive. Lauren F. Klein considers eating and early American aesthetics together, reframing the philosophical work of food and its meaning for the people who prepare, serve, and consume it. She tells the story of how eating emerged as an aesthetic activity over the course of the eighteenth century and how it subsequently transformed into a means of expressing both allegiance and resistance to the dominant Enlightenment worldview. Klein offers richly layered accounts of the enslaved men and women who cooked the meals of the nation's founders and, in doing so, directly affected the development of our national culture--from Thomas Jefferson's emancipation agreement with his enslaved chef to Malinda Russell's Domestic Cookbook, the first African American-authored culinary text. The first book to examine the gustatory origins of aesthetic taste in early American literature, An Archive of Taste shows how thinking about eating can help to tell new stories about the range of people who worked to establish a cultural foundation for the United States. 588 Description based on print version record. 590 Project Muse|bProject Muse Open Access 650 0 African Americans|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects /sh85001932|xFood|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects /sh99005367|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh99005024 650 0 Enslaved persons|zUnited States|xSocial conditions.|0https ://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010113227 650 0 Cooking, American|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh2009121789 650 0 Food habits|zUnited States|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh2008120942 650 7 African Americans.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 799558 650 7 Food.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/930458 650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 650 7 Enslaved persons.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1120522 650 7 Social conditions.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1919811 650 7 Cooking, American.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1753224 650 7 Food habits.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/930807 651 7 United States.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204155 655 0 Electronic books. 655 7 Electronic books. .|2local 710 2 Project Muse,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n96089174|edistributor. 776 18 |iPrint version:|w(DLC) 2020013187|z9781517905095 830 0 Book collections on Project MUSE. 856 40 |zOnline eBook. Open Access via Project Muse. |uhttps:// muse.jhu.edu/book/74992/ 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20211214|cProjectMuse|tProjectMuseOpenAccess