An Archive of Taste, Race and Eating in the Early United States

Author

Klein; Lauren F.

Year

2020

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Type

BOOK

Description

Introduction: No eating in the archive -- Taste: eating and aesthetics in the early United States -- Appetite: eating, embodiment, and the tasteful subject -- Satisfaction: aesthetics, speculation, and the theory of cookbooks -- Imagination: food, fiction, and the limits of taste -- Absence: slavery and silence in the archive of eating -- Epilogue: two portraits of taste.