Garden variety : the American tomato from corporate to heirloom /
John Hoenig explores the path by which, over the last two centuries, the tomato went from a rare seasonal crop to America's favorite vegetable. Garden Variety illuminates American culinary culture from 1800 to the present, challenging a simple story of mass-produced homogeneity and demonstratin...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2018]
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Series: | Arts and traditions of the table.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. THE EARLY AMERICAN TOMATO
- 2. THE TOMATO ON THE FARM: CULINARY AND AGRICULTURAL ADVANCEMENTS, 1820-1900
- 3. A TOMATO FOR ALL SEASONS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TWELVE-MONTH FRESH AND PROCESSED TOMATO INDUSTRIES, 1880-1945
- 4. CONSUMING TOMATOES: CULINARY CREATIVITY AND EXPANSION IN THE AGE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
- 5. "A POOR TOMATO IS BETTER THAN NO TOMATO": THE HARVESTER AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF THE TOMATO
- 6. MEET THE FARMER OR BECOME ONE: CHALLENGING COMMERCIAL FOOD CULTURE
- CONCLUSION
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.