As American as Shoofly Pie : : The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine / / William Woys Weaver.

When visitors travel to Pennsylvania Dutch Country, they are encouraged to consume the local culture by way of "regional specialties" such as cream-filled whoopie pies and deep-fried fritters of every variety. Yet many of the dishes and confections visitors have come to expect from the reg...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 59 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • INTRODUCTION. Deep Fried Meets Dutchified: Food Mirrors the Culture
  • CHAPTER 1. It Began in Bethlehem
  • CHAPTER 2. The Hasenpfeffer Dutch: The Urban and Rural Elites
  • CHAPTER 3. Our Dumpling Culture and the “Swabian Third”
  • CHAPTER 4. Seimawe: Tourism Reshapes a Food Icon
  • CHAPTER 5. The Buckwheat Dutch: “We Ain’t Towner
  • CHAPTER 6. The Creation of the “Amish Table ”
  • CHAPTER 7. The Cabbage Curtain
  • CHAPTER 8. Waffle Palaces
  • CHAPTER 9. Consider the Groundhog
  • CHAPTER 10. The Amish Table Goes Dutch
  • CHAPTER 11. The Kutztown Folk Festival
  • CHAPTER 12. New Dutch Cuisine and the Greening of the Amish
  • Recipes
  • Recipes by Category
  • Glossary of Pennsylvania Dutch Food Terms
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments