{"product_id":"fashionable-food-seven-decades-of-food-fads-sylvia-lovegren","title":"Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads (Sylvia Lovegren)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThough the Roaring Twenties call to mind images of flappers dancing the Charleston and gangsters dispensing moonshine in back rooms, Sylvia Lovegren here playfully reminds us what these characters ate for dinner: Banana and Popcorn Salad. Like fashions and fads, food—even bad food—has a history, and Lovegren's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFashionable Food\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is quite literally a cookbook of the American past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWell researched and delightfully illustrated, this collection of faddish recipes from the 1920s to the 1990s is a decade-by-decade tour of a hungry American century. From the Three P's Salad—that's peas, pickles, and peanuts—of the post-World War I era to the Fruit Cocktail and Spam Buffet Party loaf—all the rage in the ultra-modern 1950s, when cooking from a can epitomized culinary sophistication\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e—Fashionable Food\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e details the origins of these curious delicacies. In two chapters devoted to \"\u003cem\u003eexotic foods of the East\u003c\/em\u003e,\" for example, Lovegren explores the long American love affair with Chinese food and the social status conferred upon anyone chic enough to eat pu-pu platters from Polynesia. Throughout, Lovegren supplements recipes—some mouth-watering, some appalling—from classic cookbooks and family magazines, with humorous anecdotes that chronicle how society and kitchen technology influenced the way we lived and how we ate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEqual parts American and culinary history, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFashionable Food\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e examines our collective past from the kitchen counter. Even if it's been a while since you last had Tang Pie and your fondue set is collecting dust in the back of the cupboard, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFashionable Food\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will inspire, entertain, and inform.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of SF Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47364943544578,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/0463\/6790\/files\/61kXb5QwcJL._SL1276.jpg?v=1771106974","url":"https:\/\/omnivorebooks.myshopify.com\/products\/fashionable-food-seven-decades-of-food-fads-sylvia-lovegren","provider":"Omnivore Books on Food","version":"1.0","type":"link"}