Eating in Eden: Food and American Utopias

by Etta M. Madden

Book Overview

Perennially viewed as both a utopian land of abundant resources and a fallen nation of consummate consumers, North America has provided a fertile setting for the development of distinctive foodways reflecting the diverse visions of life in the United States. Immigrants, from colonial English Puritans and Spanish Catholics to mid-twentieth-century European Jews and contemporary Indian Hindus, have generated innovative foodways in creating "new world"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803232519
• ISBN13: 9780803232518
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"