The Taste of America by John L. Hess and Karen Hess

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  • ISBN 10 0252068750
  • ISBN 13 9780252068751
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  • Published Jun 30 2000
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 416
  • Language English
  • Edition New edition
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press
  • Imprint University of Illinois Press

Publishers Text

This book provoked the cooking experts of the 1970's into spitting rage by pointing out an embarrassing detail that most of them lacked an essential ingredient: expertise. Now Kool-Aid like Mother used to make has become Kool-Aid like Grandmother used to make, and anew generation has been weaned on synthetic food, pathetic snobbery, neurotic health advice and reconstituted history.


This much-needed new edition chars Julia Child (She's not a cook, but she plays one on TV), chides food maven Ruth Reichl and marvels at a convention of food technologists (who program bore the slogan Eat your heart out, Mother Nature). Delectable reading for consumers, reformers and scholars, this new volume will serve will into the future.

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