American Dish: 100 Recipes from Ten Delicious Decades

by Merrill Shindler

Book Overview

American Dish commemorates the 20th century through beloved recipes that are not only delicious but which also represent the popular trends of each era from apple pie to Buffalo chicken wings.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883318106
• ISBN13: 9781883318109
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Angel City Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

An excellent cookbook

Part cookbook and part history book. Shindler gives brief introductions explaining the culinary history for each decade of the 20th century and then follows with a sampling of recipes for typical foods from that era. The recipes are all simple and clear and many are for items you often don't see recipes for.

A Remarkable Book

This small, concise volume boils the 20th century down to 100 recipes, which seems impossible. But the author has done it with wit and style, coming up with recipes that aren't just tasty (the chili is the best ever), but which also represent their eras with great precision. What seems, at first, like a cookbook, is actually a socio-culinary-historical tract on Our Times, viewed from the table top. The verbiage is clever, the book handsome -- it deserves a place on the shelf of every curious cook.