The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation
- ISBN-10
- 0767915798
- ISBN-13
- 9780767915793
- Category
- Cooking
- Pages
- 392
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Clarkson Potter
- Author
- David Kamp
Description
An entertaining compilation of essays goes inside the American food revolution to explore the growing interest in gourmet eating, chronicling the evolution of the movement and profiling those responsible for the transformation, including James Beard, Julia Child, Craig Clairborne, Alice Waters, Wolfgang Puck, Emeril Legasse, and others. 75,000 first printing.
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