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In American 100 Recipes From Ten Delicious Decades, author Merrill Shindler, Zagat survey editor and popular culinary talk show host, takes us on a lighthearted, nostalgic and eminently edible journey through the Yankee Doodle dining habits of twentieth-century America. Throughout history, cuisine has been an indulgence for the rich and a bland necessity for the poor. At the start of the twentieth century the very act of eating -- along with sex, the most fundamental of human activities -- went through a radical reinterpretation. The twentieth century was destined to become a crispy, crunchy and convenient time. By the time the century began, there were already forty-two breakfast cereal plants in Battle Creek, Michigan, the hamburger had been perfected at a diner in New Haven, Connecticut, and H.J. Heinz erected a sign in New York City which stood six stories tall and proclaimed "57 Good Things for the Table" -- ranging from tomato ketchup to peach butter. The fun had just begun. From Cobb salad to Caesar salad. Chipped beef to mystery meat. Tamale pie to lemon meringue. Chicken chop suey to chocolate fondue. Vichyssoise to cioppino. String-bean and onion-ring casserole to angel h

Author

Merrill Shindler; design by Samuel Darnall & Associates; calligraphy & illustrations by Lisa Holtzman

Publisher

Angel City Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781883318109

Subjects

Home & Lifestyle, Cooking, History

Updated

2026-03-24