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Food in the Gilded Age: What Ordinary Americans Ate - Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy
Robert Dirks
Food in the Gilded Age: What Ordinary Americans Ate - Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy
Robert Dirks
The Gilded Age is renowned for the excesses of the robber barons and tycoons. The lavishness of their tables impressed contemporaries and historians alike. But what about the eating habits of ordinary Americans at the time? Robert Dirks answers that question by peering through the lens of what then was a newly emerging science of nutrition.
226 pages, 20 black & white halftones, 16 tables
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | April 14, 2016 |
ISBN13 | 9781442245136 |
Publishers | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 226 |
Dimensions | 262 × 238 × 24 mm · 521 g |
Language | English |