Setting the Table for Julia Child : Gourmet Dining in America, 1934–1961 / / David Strauss.
Before Julia Child’s warbling voice and towering figure burst into America’s homes, a gourmet food movement was already sweeping the nation. Setting the Table for Julia Child considers how the tastes and techniques cultivated at dining clubs and in the pages of Gourmet magazine helped prepare many a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2011. ©2011. |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 324 p., [8] of plates :); ill. (some col.) ; |
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Table of Contents:
- Food fights in twentieth-century America : the good life versus the healthy life
- Building a foundation for gourmet dining in America
- Origins, rituals, and menus of gourmet dining societies, 1934-1961
- Selectivity and publicity in the gourmet dining movement
- Beating the Nazis with truffles and tripe : the early years of "Gourmet : the magazine of good living"
- Gourmet's gastronomic tours : Samuel Chamberlain and his bouquets
- From readers to cooks? : the impact of Gourmet/gourmet recipes
- Julia and Simca : a Franco-American culinary alliance.