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Food in the Gilded Age - What Ordinary Americans Ate (Hardcover)
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Food in the Gilded Age - What Ordinary Americans Ate (Hardcover)
Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy
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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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