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The Taste of America (The Food Series)
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The Taste of America (The Food Series) Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition

by John L Hess/ Karen Hess

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Univ of Illinois Pr, 2000. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 390 pages. 8.25x5.75x1.00 inches.
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  • Title The Taste of America (The Food Series)
  • Author John L Hess/ Karen Hess
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Univ of Illinois Pr
  • Date 2000
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1-0252068750
  • ISBN 9780252068751 / 0252068750
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.18 x 5.46 x 0.87 in (20.78 x 13.87 x 2.21 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Food, Cookery
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99055374
  • Dewey Decimal Code 641.309

First line

WE WRITE with trepidation.

From the rear cover

This classic barbeque of our foodways is as valid and as savory today as when it first tickled ribs a generation ago. Based on the superlative authority of John L. Hess, onetime food critic of the New York Times, and Karen Hess, the pioneering historian of cookery, The Taste of America is both a history of American cooking and a history of the advice smiling celebrity cooks have asked Americans to swallow.

The Taste of America provoked the cooking experts of the 1970s into spitting rage by pointing out in embarrassing detail that most of them lacked an essential ingredient: expertise. Now "Kool-Aid like Mother used to make" has become "Kool-Aid like Grandmother used to make", and a new generation has been weaned on synthetic food, pathetic snobbery, neurotic health advice, and reconstituted history.

This much-needed new edition chars Julia Child ("She's not a cook, but she plays one on TV"), chides food maven Ruth Reichl, and marvels at a convention of food technologists (whose program bore the slogan "Eat your heart out, Mother Nature"). Delectable reading for consumers, reformers, and scholars, this twenty-fifth anniversary reissue of The Taste of America will serve well into the new millennium.

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About the author

John L. Hess, long-time journalist and former food critic for the New York Times, is the author of The Grand Acquisitors, Vanishing France, and other books. Karen Hess, the author of The Carolina Rice Kitchen: The African Connection and the editor of numerous historical cookbooks including Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery, And Booke of Sweetmeats, was hailed by Newsweek as "the best American cook in Paris."