The story behind the dish : classic American foods /

"This book profiles 50 classic American foods ranging from junk and fast food to main dishes to desserts, and it reveals what made the dishes iconic in American pop culture"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McWilliams, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara : Greenwood, 2012.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780313385100
0313385106
1280119411
9781280119415
9798216149491
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Apple pie
  • Bagels
  • Baked beans
  • Barbecue
  • Brownies
  • Buffalo wings
  • Cheesesteaks
  • Chili
  • Chocolate chip cookies
  • Clambake
  • Cobblers and bettys, slumps and grunts
  • Cobb salad
  • Cornbread
  • Corn flakes
  • Crab cakes and lobster rolls
  • Cracker jack
  • Fortune cookies
  • Fried chicken
  • Fried green tomatoes
  • Frozen custard, soft serve, and ice cream
  • Fry bread
  • Grits
  • Gumbo
  • Ham biscuits
  • Hamburgers
  • Hoagies and subs
  • Hot dogs
  • Hunter's stews : burgoo and Brunswick stew
  • Ice cream cones
  • Macaroni and cheese
  • Meat loaf
  • Pasties
  • Peanut butter and jelly
  • Pierogis
  • Pizza
  • Po'boys
  • Potato chips
  • Pumpkin pie
  • Rice and beans : from Hoppin' John to Moors and Christians
  • Scrapple
  • Shoofly pie
  • Strawberry shortcake
  • Sweet potato pie
  • Tacos
  • Tomato soup
  • Tuna noodle casserole
  • Turkey and stuffing
  • Waldorf salad.