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Book SynopsisWhat we ate, how we ate, and how eating changed during America’s first real food revolution, 1900–1910.
Trade Review"[A] kaleidoscopic mix of contemporary news stories, research, and gorgeous reproductions of menus from the era, festooned with illustrations of everything from bluebirds to rakish swimmers." -- Melanie Rehak "Concentrating on those [menus] from the fateful decade between 1900 and 1910, he and Stoffer, his co-author and wife, discover tales of class, gender and race, industrialization and progressivism, immigration and xenophobia-all the great themes of early-twentieth-century America and, of course, of today. The result is a portrait not only of a food and dining culture that would come, over the next hundred years, to dominate and shape the nation, but also of a nation that would come to dominate and shape the world." -- Brett Martin "Lesy and Stoffer have written a fascinating account of the American dining experience at the beginning of the 20th century."
