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This extraordinary collection, a trove of enchanting designs, appealing colors, and forgotten motifs that stir the imagination, features an unprecedented assortment of ephemera, or paper collectibles, related to food. It includes images of postcards, match covers, menus, labels, posters, brochures, valentines, packaging, advertisements, and other materials from nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Internationally acclaimed food historian William Woys Weaver takes us on a lively tour through this dazzling collection in which each piece tells a new story about food and the past. Packed with fascinating history, the volume is the first serious attempt to organize culinary ephemera into categories, making it useful for food lovers, collectors, designers, and curators alike. Much more than a catalog, Culinary Ephemera follows this paper trail to broader themes in American social history such as diet and health, alcoholic beverages, and Americans abroad. It is a collection that, as Weaver notes, will transport us into the vicarious worlds of dinners past, brushing elbows with the reality of another time, another place, another human condition.

Who reads Culinary Ephemera: An Illustrated History (Volume 30) (California Studies in Food and Culture)?

Author

William Woys Weaver

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520947061

Category

cooking

Subjects

History, Crafts & Hobbies, Folklore

Rating

3.32 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13