The story behind the dish : classic American foods / Mark McWilliams.

"This book profiles 50 classic American foods ranging from junk and fast food to main dishes to desserts, and it reveals what made the dishes iconic in American pop culture"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McWilliams, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara : Greenwood, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Apple pie
  • Bagels
  • Baked beans
  • Barbecue
  • Brownies
  • Buffalo wings
  • Cheesesteaks
  • Chili
  • Chocolate chip cookies
  • Clambake
  • Cobblers and bettys, slumps and grunts
  • Cobb salad
  • Cornbread
  • Corn flakes
  • Crab cakes and lobster rolls
  • Cracker jack
  • Fortune cookies
  • Fried chicken
  • Fried green tomatoes
  • Frozen custard, soft serve, and ice cream
  • Fry bread
  • Grits
  • Gumbo
  • Ham biscuits
  • Hamburgers
  • Hoagies and subs
  • Hot dogs
  • Hunter's stews : burgoo and Brunswick stew
  • Ice cream cones
  • Macaroni and cheese
  • Meat loaf
  • Pasties
  • Peanut butter and jelly
  • Pierogis
  • Pizza
  • Po'boys
  • Potato chips
  • Pumpkin pie
  • Rice and beans : from Hoppin' John to Moors and Christians
  • Scrapple
  • Shoofly pie
  • Strawberry shortcake
  • Sweet potato pie
  • Tacos
  • Tomato soup
  • Tuna noodle casserole
  • Turkey and stuffing
  • Waldorf salad.