Andrea L. Broomfield

Kansas City

A Food Biography

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Barbecue, fried chicken, chili, and steak: these foods immediately call to mind Kansas City's reputation for fantastic cuisine. This food biography tells the story of how geography, politics, arts, race, and culture came together to create these iconic foods and fuel a Kansas City food renaissance that is now finding renewed popularity and acclaim.

Produktdetails

• Big City Food Biographies
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9781442232884
• ISBN-10: 1442232889
• Artikelnr.: 42811936

Autorenporträt

Andrea Broomfield is a culinary historian and an English professor at Johnson County Community College. She is the author of Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History (2007) and writes extensively about the Victorian era.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword, by Ken Albala Preface: Kansas City: The Nation's
Hospitality Crossroads 1: "Here Stands a City Built O' Bread and Beef":
Kansas City's Natural and Material Resources 2: Prehistoric and Native
American Foodways of the Kawsmouth Region 3: The Old World Meets the New 4:
Contributing to Kansas City's Greater Good: Immigrants and their Food
Traditions 5: African American Contributions and Kansas City's Southern
Traditions 6: Kansas City Markets and Groceries 7: "Kansas City, Here I
Come": Historic Restaurants at America's Crossroads, 1860s-1970s 8: Kansas
City Home Cooks and Home-Grown Festivals 9: We've Grown Accustomed to These
Tastes: Kansas City's Signature Dishes Bibliography Index About the Author