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Food and eating in America : a documentary reader
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- Creator
- by James C. Giesen, Bryant Simon
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1 edition
- Hoboken, NJ ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2018
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781119412878, 9781118936382, 9781118936405, 9781118936399, 111893640X, 9781118936412, 1118936418, 1119412870
- OCLC
- on1004957261
- Includes index.
- Intro; Title Page; Table of Contents; Series Editorsâ#x80;#x99; Preface; Part I: An Appetizer; Part II: Hunting, Harvesting, Starving, and the Occasional Feast; Chapter 1: Food in the New World; Document 1.1: The Cherokee Creation Story, â#x80;#x9C;How the World Was Made, Wahnenauhi Versionâ#x80;#x9D Document 1.2: John Smithâ#x80;#x99;s History of the Starving Times at Jamestown Colony (1609); Document 1.3: English Artist John Whiteâ#x80;#x99;s drawings of Native Americans fishing, cooking, and preparing corn (1580s); Document 1.4: Edward Winslow on the â#x80;#x9C;Firstâ#x80;#x9D; Thanksgiving, 1621
- Document 1.5: A Micmac Perspective on Europeansâ#x80;#x99; Way of Life, near Quebec (c. 1677)Document 1.6: John Winthrop, Jr., Report to the Royal Society of London on Indian Corn (1662); Document 1.7: Observations on American Vegetables Versus English Vegetables, from John Josselyn, Newâ#x80;#x90;Englandâ#x80;#x99;s Rarities Discovered (1672), and Francis Higginson, Newâ#x80;#x90;Englandâ#x80;#x99;s Plantation (1630); Document 1.8: A Soldierâ#x80;#x99;s Perspective on the Revolutionary War, Selections from the Memoir of Private Joseph Plumb Martin (1777)
- Document 1.9: A Generalâ#x80;#x99;s Perspective: A Letter from General Horatio Gates to Major General Caswell (August 3, 1780)Document 1.10: Selections from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791) on Communal Eating and Vegetarianism; Chapter 2: Food, Foodways, and Conflict in the Early Republic; Document 2.1: Amelia Simmons, American Cookery (1796), â#x80;#x9C;Preface, â#x80;#x9D; and Selected Recipes; Document 2.2: The Preface, Introduction, and Assorted Recipes from Mary Randolph, The Virginia Houseâ#x80;#x90;Wife (1824); Document 2.3: Unidentified artist, Benjamin Hawkins and the Creek Indians (Painting, c. 1805)
- Document 2.4: John Lewis Krimmel, The Quilting Frolic (Painting, 1813)Document 2.5: Excerpt from Joseph Doddridge, Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia (1824), Chapter 5, â#x80;#x9C;Beasts and Birdsâ#x80;#x9D Document 2.6: Selections from English Phrenologist George Combe, Notes on the United States During a Phrenological Visit in 1838â#x80;#x93;9â#x80;#x93;40, volume II. (1841); Document 2.7: A Variation of the Lyrics of â#x80;#x9C;Home Sweet Home, â#x80;#x9D; a Popular Song of the Early Republic (c. 1830); Reference; Part III: Fields and Foods in the Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 3: Slavery and Food in the Old SouthDocument 3.1: Selections from Frederick Douglass, Memoirs on Food and Slavery (1845); Document 3.2: Excerpts from Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) on Slavesâ#x80;#x99; Weekly Rations, Punishments for Slavesâ#x80;#x99; Stealing Food from Master, and Slave Taste Testers for Master; Document 3.3: Images of the Antebellum South; Document 3.4: Excerpts from Daniel R.A.C. Hundley, Social Relations in Our Southern States (1860)