Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal

by Abigail Carroll

Book Overview

We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our society as the food on our plates, and our national identity is written in the eating schedules we follow and the customs we observe at the table and on the go.

In Three Squares, food historian Abigail Carroll upends the popular understanding of our most cherished mealtime traditions, revealing that our...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465025528
• ISBN13: 9780465025527
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"