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Kansas City : a food biography /

While some cities owe their existence to lumber or oil, turpentine or steel, Kansas City owes its existence to food. From its earliest days, Kansas City was in the business of provisioning pioneers and traders headed west, and later with provisioning the nation with meat and wheat. Throughout its hi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Broomfield, Andrea (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]
Colección:Big city food biography series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Kansas City : the nation's hospitality crossroads
  • "Here stands a city build o' bread and beef" : Kansas City's natural and material resources
  • Prehistoric and Native American foodways of the Kawsmouth Region
  • The Old World meets the new
  • Contributing to Kansas City's greater good : immigrants and their food traditions
  • African American contributions and Kansas City's southern traditions
  • Kansas City markets and groceries
  • "Kansas City, Here I Come" : historic restaurants at America's crossroads, 1860s-1970s
  • Kansas City home cooks and homegrown festivals
  • We've grown accustomed to these tastes : Kansas City's signature dishes.