Pumpkin : the curious history of an American icon /

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"Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ott, Cindy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle, Wash : University of Washington Press, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Temas:
Pumpkin > History.
Cooking (Pumpkin) > United States > History.
Pumpkin growers > United States > History.
Producteurs de citrouilles > États-Unis > Histoire.
COOKING / History.
COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / American / General.
HISTORY / United States / General.
Cooking (Pumpkin)
Pumpkin.
Pumpkin growers.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword: Not by Bread Alone, by William Cronon; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Corn, Beans, and Just Another Squash, 10,000 BCE to 1600; 2. "The Times Wherein Old Pompion Was a Saint" From Pumpkin Beer to Pumpkin Pie, 1600 to 1799; 3. Thoreau Sits on a Pumpkin The Making of a Rural New England Icon, 1800 to 1860; 4. "Wonderfully Grand and Colossal"
  • The Pumpkin and the Nation, 1861 to 1899; 5. Jack-o'-Lantern Smiles
  • Americans Celebrate the Fall Harvest with Pumpkins, 1900 to 1945; 6. Atlantic Giants to Jack-Be-Littles
  • The Changing Nature of Pumpkins, 1946 to the Present.
  • 7. Pulling Up a Pig Sty to Put in a Pumpkin Patch
  • The Changing Nature of American Rural Economies, 1946 to the PresentNotes; Bibliography; Index.

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