Food in the Gilded Age - Dirks, Robert

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TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER ONE: NUTRITION HISTORY RELATIONSHIP TO CULINARY HISTORY MEXICAN-AMERICAN DIETS IN THE RIO GRAND VALLEY METHOD AND TECHNIQUES IN EARLY DIETARIES STRUCTURE OF A DIET CHAPTER TWO: MOUNTAINEERS AND A NUTRITION TRANSITION IN APPALACHIA CROOKED CREEK FRONTIER FOOD HABITS NORTHEAST GEORGIA BACKWOODS NUTRITION MARYVILLE IMPERFECTLY SKILLED MECHANICS SOUTHERN STUDENTS THE NUTRITION TRANSITION CHAPTER THREE: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND SOUL FOODS TUSKEGEE AND THE BLACK BELT EASTERN VIRGINIA URBAN COMMUNITIES THE INSTITUTE FOR COLORED YOUTH CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES NUTRITIONAL SUPERIORITY OF METROPOLITAN DIETS CHAPTER FOUR: RICH AND POOR AND THE SEASONALITY OF DIET UPPER AND MIDDLE-CLASS DIETS WHAT MEMBERS OF THE WORKING CLASS ATE On Chicago's West Side Around Rundown Parts of Washington, D. C. Inside the Tenements of New York City COMPARING NUTRITIONAL VALUES ANNUAL EBBS AND FLOWS The Rural South Cotton and the post-harvest dead season The pellagra season The Urban North SEASONAL HUNGER AND ITS CONSEQUENCES CHAPTER FIVE: IMMIGRANTS' DIETS EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS Italian Americans Russian-American Jews Orthodox Diets Liberal Diets Bohemian Americans Irish Americans British Americans German Americans EATING LIKE KINGS THE NUTRITIONAL CONSEQUENCES CHAPTER SIX: CONTRASTS COLLEGE EATING CLUBS AND DINING HALLS: REGIONAL PATTERNS EATING HABITS AND GENDER The Training Table: Red Meat Barely Cooked How to be Plump FOOD CULTURES EAST AND WEST Chinese Americans French-Canadian Americans LIST OF TABLES Table 1.1. Nutritional Values, Mexican-American Diets, Las Cruces, Spring, 1896-1897 Table 2.1. Typical Diet at Crooked Creek, Late Summer, 1904 Table 2.2. Average Nutritional Values, Various Diets, Georgia and Tennessee, 1895-1904 Table 2.3. Typical Maryville Diet, Late Fall through Early Spring Diet, 1901-1903 Table 3.1. Typical Winter-Spring Diet, Tuskegee, 1895-1896 Table 3.2. Typical Winter Diet, Poor African Americans, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, 1892-1906 Table 3.3. Average Nutritional Values, Various African American Diets, 1895-1906 Table 4.1. Typical Fall-Winter Diet, Middle Class Households. Northeastern and Midwestern States, 1895-1897 Table 4.2. Typical January through March Diet of Poor Working-Class Families, New York City, 1897 Table 4.3. Average Nutritional Values by Class Table 5.1. Foods Commonly Part of European-American Diets about 1900 Table 5.2. Average Nutritional Values for Diets of Nine Immigrant Groups Table 5.3. Average Nutritional Values of Bohemian Diets by Length of Residence in the United States Table 5.4. Average Cost and Dietary Variety among Sets of Immigrants Table 6.1. Average Nutritional Values, Diets Associated with Strenuous Activities, 1896-1903 Table 6.2. Typical Menu for the Day, Maine Lumberjacks, Winter, 1901-1903 LIST OF RECIPES Recipe 1.1. New Mexican Chile Salad Recipe 2.1. Apple Cobbler Recipe 2.2. Chow-Chow Recipe 3.1. Roasted Possum Recipe 3.2. Sweet Potato Puffs Recipes 4.1. Indian Puddings Recipe 4.2. Boiled Leg of Lamb in Caper Sauce Recipe 4.3. Lyonnaise Eggs Recipe 5.1. Zuppa di Fagiuoli Recipes 5.2. Borsht and Other Beet Soups Recipe 5.3. Fried Pork Tenderloin Recipes 6.1. Prune and Raisin Pies LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS Photo 1.1. Preparing Tortillas in Aguas Calientes, Mexico Photo 2.1. A.J. Dorsey's Cabin. Family at Breakfast Photo 2.2. Mountain Family Photo 2.3. Picnic Photo 2.4. Noon Hour Brookside Cotton Mills Photo 3.1. African American Couple Sitting in One Room Cabin near Fireplace Photo 3.2. Sixth Street Market (typical vegetable men), Richmond, Va. Photo 3.3. Hampton Institute, Va. - a graduate (dining) at home Photo 3.4. Easy Living Photo 4.1. Tea at Hostess House Photo 4.2. This Boy and Brother were Picking Discarded Fruit Out of Barrels in Market near...

Biographie:
Robert Dirks is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Illinois State University. He has conducted research in areas of both food habits and nutrition worldwide. His publications include papers in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, World Cultures, Journal of Nutrition, and Annual Review of Nutrition. His book, Come & Get It! McDonaldization and the Disappearance of Local Food from a Central Illinois Community, traces a changing food culture from frontier days to the beginning of the twenty-first century....

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE: NUTRITION HISTORY
RELATIONSHIP TO CULINARY HISTORYMEXICAN-AMERICAN DIETS IN THE RIO GRAND VALLEYMETHOD AND TECHNIQUES IN EARLY DIETARIESSTRUCTURE OF A DIETCHAPTER TWO: MOUNTAINEERS AND A NUTRITION TRANSITION IN APPALACHIA
CROOKED CREEKFRONTIER FOOD HABITSNORTHEAST GEORGIABACKWOODS NUTRITIONMARYVILLEIMPERFECTLY SKILLED MECHANICSSOUTHERN STUDENTSTHE NUTRITION TRANSITION
CHAPTER THREE: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND SOUL FOODS
TUSKEGEE AND THE BLACK BELT
EASTERN VIRGINIA
URBAN COMMUNITIES
THE INSTITUTE FOR COLORED YOUTH
CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIESNUTRITIONAL SUPERIORITY OF METROPOLITAN DIETS
CHAPTER FOUR: RICH AND POOR AND THE SEASONALITY OF DIETUPPER AND MIDDLE-CLASS DIETSWHAT MEMBERS OF THE WORKING CLASS ATEOn Chicago's West SideAround Rundown Parts of Washington, D. C.Inside the Tenements of New York CityCOMPARING NUTRITIONAL VALUESANNUAL EBBS AND FLOWSThe Rural SouthCotton and the post-harvest dead seasonThe pellagra seasonThe Urban North
SEASONAL HUNGER AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
CHAPTER FIVE: IMMIGRANTS' DIETS
EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS
Italian Americans
Russian-American Jews
Orthodox Diets
Liberal Diets
Bohemian Americans
Irish Americans
British AmericansGerman AmericansEATING LIKE KINGSTHE NUTRITIONAL CONSEQUENCESCHAPTER SIX: CONTRASTS
COLLEGE EATING CLUBS AND DINING HALLS: REGIONAL PATTERNSEATING HABITS AND GENDERThe Training Table: Red Meat Barely Cooked
How to be PlumpFOOD CULTURES EAST AND WEST
Chinese AmericansFrench-Canadian Americans








LIST OF TABLES
Table 1.1. Nutritional Values, Mexican-American Diets, Las Cruces, Spring, 1896-1897
Table 2.1. Typical Diet at Crooked Creek, Late Summer, 1904
Table 2.2. Average Nutritional Values, Various Diets, Georgia and Tennessee, 1895-1904
Table 2.3. Typical Maryville Diet, Late Fall through Early Spring Diet, 1901-1903
Table 3.1. Typical Winter-Spring Diet, Tuskegee, 1895-1896
Table 3.2. Typical Winter Diet, Poor African Americans, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, 1892-1906
Table 3.3. Average Nutritional Values, Various African American Diets, 1895-1906
Table 4.1. Typical Fall-Winter Diet, Middle Class Households. Northeastern and Midwestern States, 1895-1897
Table 4.2. Typical January through March Diet of Poor Working-Class Families, New York City, 1897
Table 4.3. Average Nutritional Values by Class
Table 5.1. Foods Commonly Part of European-American Diets about 1900
Table 5.2. Average Nutritional Values for Diets of Nine Immigrant Groups
Table 5.3. Average Nutritional Values of Bohemian Diets by Length of Residence in the United States
Table 5.4. Average Cost and Dietary Variety among Sets of Immigrants
Table 6.1. Average Nutritional Values, Diets Associated with Strenuous Activities, 1896-1903
Table 6.2. Typical Menu for the Day, Maine Lumberjacks, Winter, 1901-1903


LIST OF RECIPES
Recipe 1.1. New Mexican Chile Salad
Recipe 2.1. Apple Cobbler
Recipe 2.2. Chow-Chow
Recipe 3.1. Roasted Possum
Recipe 3.2. Sweet Potato Puffs
Recipes 4.1. Indian Puddings
Recipe 4.2. Boiled Leg of Lamb in Caper Sauce
Recipe 4.3. Lyonnaise Eggs
Recipe 5.1. Zuppa di Fagiuoli
Recipes 5.2. Borsht and Other Beet Soups
Recipe 5.3. Fried Pork Tenderloin
Recipes 6.1. Prune and Raisin Pies










LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS
Photo 1.1. Preparing Tortillas in Aguas Calientes, Mexico
Photo 2.1. A.J. Dorsey's Cabin. Family at Breakfast
Photo 2.2. Mountain Family
Photo 2.3. Picnic
Photo 2.4. Noon Hour Brookside Cotton Mills
Photo 3.1. African American Couple Si...