Amazingly enough, just twenty years ago eating sushi was a daring novelty and many Americans had never even heard of salsa. Today, we don't bat an eye at a construction worker dipping a croissant into robust specialty coffee, city dwellers buying just-picked farmstand produce, or suburbanites stocking up on artisanal cheeses and extra virgin oils at supermarkets. The United States of Arugula is a rollicking, revealing stew of culinary innovation, food politics, and kitchen confidences chronicling how gourmet eating in America went from obscure to pervasive—and became the cultural success story of our era

Other cookbooks by this author

• The Food Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge
• The Food Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge
• The Food Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge
• The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation
• The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution
• The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution
• The Wine Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Oenological Knowledge
• The Wine Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Oenological Knowledge
• The Wine Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Oenological Knowledge