United States of Arugula : The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution

English

ISBN: 0767915801

EAN: 9780767915809

Category: Cooking / Essays/Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / American / General/

Publisher: Broadway Books

Release Date: 09/20/2007

Synopsis: The wickedly entertaining, hunger-inducing, behind-the-scenes story of the revolution in American food that has made exotic ingredients, celebrity chefs, rarefied cooking tools, and destination restaurants familiar aspects of our everyday lives. Amazingly enough, just twenty years ago eating sushi was a daring novelty and many Americans had never even heard of salsa. Today, we dont bat an eye at a construction worker dipping a croissant into robust specialty coffee, city dwellers buying just-picked farmstand produce, or suburbanites stocking up on artisanal cheeses and extra virgin oils at supermarkets. The United States of Arugula is a rollicking, revealing stew of culinary innovation, food politics, and kitchen confidences chronicling how gourmet eating in America went from obscure to pervasiveand became the cultural success story of our era.

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United States of Arugula : The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.86 inches

Width: 5.22 inches

Length: 7.99 inches

Weight: 12.03 oz

Pages: 416