Heather Arndt Anderson

Breakfast (eBook, PDF)

A History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From corn flakes to pancakes, Breakfast: A History explores this "most important meal of the day" as a social and gastronomic phenomenon. It explains how and why the meal emerged, what is eaten commonly in this meal across the globe, why certain foods are considered indispensable, and how it has been depicted in art and media. Heather Arndt Anderson's detail-rich, culturally revealing, and entertaining narrative thoroughly satisfies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216252153
• Artikelnr.: 74835160

Autorenporträt

Heather Arndt Anderson, a Portland native, is a freelance journalist and food writer. She is the author of Breakfast: A History (AltaMira Press, 2013) and Portland: A Food Biography (Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy, 2014). She is presently writing Chilies: A Global History. In a previous life, she was a plant ecologist and blogger. She plays hobby-homesteader in Portland with her husband, son, cats, and chickens.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword, by Ken Albala
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: History and Social Context
Chapter 2: Around the World in a Meal
Chapter 3: Breakfast at Home
Chapter 4: Breakfast Out
Chapter 5: Breakfast in the Arts and Media
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author