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"This collection of faddish recipes from the 1920s to the 1990s is a decade-by-decade tour through a hungry American century. From the Three P's Salad - that's peas, pickles, and peanuts - of the post-World War I era to the Fruit Cocktail and Spam Buffet Party loaf - all the rage in the ultra-modern 1950s, when cooking from a can epitomized culinary sophistication - Fashionable Food explores the origins of these curious delicacies. Throughout, Lovegren...

"Jane Ziegelman, author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard, and her husband, Andrew Coe, team up for an in-depth exploration of America's greatest food crisis"-- "From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced--the Great Depression--and how it transformed America's culinary culture. The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the...

The authors present recipes from and trivia about life in the United States in the 1960s.

Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer's parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines of World War II. Impoverished and alone, she makes the fateful decision to leave war-torn Berlin to live with her in-laws in the countryside, thinking she'll find refuge there. But one morning, the SS come to tell her she has been conscripted to be one of Hitler's tasters: three times a day, she and nine other women go...

A gathering of more than 150 classic World War II-era recipes also offers appropriate anecdotes, advertisements, and cooking tips from that time, as well as discussing ration books, victory menus, food substitutes, and wartime entertaining.

Todd Noland and Joel Kasten, two high school seniors fed up with adult hypocrisy, launch a scheme to disrupt the political and social control of the recording, cigarette, and junk food industry.

Imaginen por un momento una mesa bien dispuesta, con platos de loza blanca llenos de comida exquisita. Imaginen unas judías verdes condimentadas con mantequilla fundida, el olor embriagador de unos pimientos asados y la textura de un Strudel de manzana y de un pan recién horneados. Al levantar la vista encontrarán a diez mujeres jóvenes y famélicas a punto de empezar a comer. Estamos en el cuartel general de Hitler y corre el año 1943; la guerra...

"A decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best (and a few of the worst) baking recipes from the 20th century"--