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Food City: Four Centuries of Food-Making in New York
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A 2017 James Beard Award Nominee: From the breweries of New Amsterdam to Brooklyn’s Sweet’n Low, a vibrant account of four centuries of food production in New York City.
New York is hailed as one of the world’s “food capitals,” but the history of food-making in the city has been mostly lost. Since the establishment of the first Dutch brewery, the commerce and culture of food enriched New York and promoted its influence on America and the world by driving innovations in machinery and transportation, shaping international trade, and feeding sailors and soldiers at war. Immigrant ingenuity re-created Old World flavors and spawned such familiar brands as Thomas’ English Muffins, Hebrew National, Twizzlers, and Ronzoni macaroni.
Food historian Joy Santlofer re-creates the texture of everyday life in a growing metropolisthe sound of stampeding cattle, the smell of burning bone for char, and the taste of novelties such as chocolate-covered matzoh and Chiclets. With an eye-opening focus on bread, sugar, drink, and meat, Food City recovers the fruitful tradition behind today’s local brewers and confectioners, recounting how food shaped a city and a nation.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780393076394 |
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Publisher: | Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. |
Publication date: | 11/01/2016 |
Pages: | 480 |
Sales rank: | 1,100,546 |
Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.40(d) |
About the Author
Her husband, Jonathan Santlofer, a best-selling novelist, and her daughter Doria live in New York City.
Table of Contents
Foreword Marion Nestle ix
Acknowledgments xi
An Invitation to Food City xv
I Appetite
1 Dutch Tastes 3
2 English Appetites 16
3 Toward Independence 27
4 Food on Parade 37
II Bread
5 The Dark Prophecy of Adam Smith 47
6 "The Big Ditch" 57
7 War Boom 63
8 The Age Of-Incorporation 75
9 Dirty Bread 88
10 Clean Bread 97
11 "Among Great Industries …" 108
12 "Brother, Can You Spare A Doughnut?" 117
13 Exodus 129
III Sugar
14 The Headless Helmsman 139
15 Candy Gets Technical 144
16 Bone Char and Other "Nuisances" 148
17 War and Sugar 155
18 King Harry 163
19 Price War 174
20 "A Rotten Job" 180
21 Sweets in Sour Times 190
22 War, Rationing, and Yogurt 197
23 "Greatest Manufacturing Town on Earth" 203
24 Chemical and Other Challenges to Sugar 214
25 Candy on the Rocks 221
26 Closing Time 225
27 Departures and Arrivals 229
IV Drink
28 Swill Milk 239
29 The Brady Bunch 245
30 The Lager Craze 249
31 Brewery Princess 255
32 The Thirsty Home Front 260
33 "City on a Still" 265
34 The Battle for Pasteurized Milk 272
35 Rolls-Royce Coffee 280
36 Heavenly Coffee, Earthly Beer 287
37 Goodbye to All That 295
V Meat
38 Manhattan Cattle Drive 303
39 Fooling Mrs. Eastman 310
40 The Militant 315
41 The Beef Trust 320
42 The Sausage Millionaires 324
43 From Depression to War 329
44 Cellophane Meat 337
45 The Specter of Change 340
46 Kosher From Indiana? 344
Conclusion: New Food City
Bread 349
Sugar 355
Drink 358
Meat 364
Those Who Leave, Those Who Stay 366
Notes 369
Jacket Image Credits 432
Illustration Credits 433
Index 435
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From the breweries of New Amsterdam to Brooklyn’s Sweet’n Low, a vibrant account of four centuries of food production in New York City.