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Author Dirks, Robert, 1942- author.

Title Food in the Gilded Age : what ordinary Americans ate / Robert Dirks.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Rowman & Littlefield studies in food and gastronomy
Studies in food and gastronomy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Nutrition history -- Mountaineers and a nutrition transition in Appalachia -- African Americans and soul foods -- Rich and poor and the seasonality of diet -- Immigrants' diets -- Contrasts.
Summary The Gilded Age is renowned for a variety of reasons, including its culture of conspicuous consumption among the newly rich. In the domain of food, conspicuous consumption manifested itself in appetites for expensive dishes and lavish dinner parties. These received ample publicity at the time, resulting later on in well-developed historical depictions of upper-class eating habits. This book delves into the eating habits of people of lesser means. Concerning the African American community, the working class, the impoverished, immigrants, and others our historical representations have been relatively superficial. The author changes that by turning to the late nineteenth century's infant science of nutrition for a look at eating and drinking through the lens of the earliest food consumption studies conducted in the United States. These were undertaken by scientists, mostly chemists, who left their laboratories to observe food consumption in kitchens, dining rooms, and various institutional settings. Their insistence on careful measurement resulted in a substantial body of detailed reports on the eating habits of ordinary people. This work sheds new light on what most Americans were cooking and eating during the Gilded Age.
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Subject Diet -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Diet.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Diet -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Food habits -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Food habits.
Food habits -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Dirks, Robert, 1942- Food in the Gilded Age. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016] 9781442245136 (DLC) 2015040482 (OCoLC)925498139
ISBN 9781442245143 (electronic)
144224514X (electronic)
9781442245136 (cloth ; alkaline paper)