The Taste of America
- ISBN-10
- 0252068750
- ISBN-13
- 9780252068751
- Category
- Cookbooks
- Pages
- 390
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Authors
- John L. Hess, Karen Hess
Description
A scathing review of America's culinary elite offers an overview of American cooking and the "expert" class that has commented on it--focusing particular attention on cooking shows in the 1970s and the subsequent fads, fashions, and fool's advice that has followed food since.
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