America Eats: Forms of Edible Folk Art
- ISBN-10
- 0060551771
- ISBN-13
- 9780060551773
- Pages
- 197
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Museum of American Folk Art
- Author
- William Woys Weaver
Description
Abstract: This book is about the relationship of folk cookery, the cookery of the common man, to folk art and the kinship these two ideas share when they come together in the American kitchen. How folk cookery adapted to such things as changes of environment and shifts in kitchen technology are also discussed. This book and its companion exhibit at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York are intended to bring together what we know about American cookery--the implements, the ideas, the recipes, and the techniques--and redefine this in terms of craftsmanship.
