Setting the Table for Julia Child : Gourmet Dining in America, 1934–1961

Setting the Table for Julia Child Gourmet Dining in America, 1934–1961

Before Julia Child’s warbling voice and towering figure burst into America’s homes, a gourmet food movement was already sweeping the nation. Setting the Table for Julia Child considers how the tastes and techniques cultivated at dining clubs and in the pages of Gourmet magazine helped prepare many a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Strauss, David, 1937- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press 2011
2011.
Materias:
Gourmet.
Cooking, American > History > 20th century.
Food > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Food habits > United States > History > 20th century.
Gourmets > United States > History > 20th century.
Dinners and dining > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Social life and customs > 1945-1970.
United States > Social life and customs > 1918-1945.
History of the Americas
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429946506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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