AMERICAN APPETITE: The Coming of Age of a National Cuisine. LESLIE BRENNER, Perennial, 1999.
 
Cooking - Food History
ISBN: 038078825x
 
Leslie Brenner's "witty and sumptuous" look at the history of the American food revolution, an award-winning food writer traces a fascinating culinary heritage and looks to a promising future. Hundreds of years ago, Native Americans feasted on regional ingredients like Olympia oysters, fresh herbs, and wild fowl. Now the best American chefs are returning to those roots. From the Puritan diet to Prohibition, from Julia Child through waves of immigration in the 1960s, Brenner traces the evolution of a national cuisine in delicious detail. 
 
Winner of the 1999 Versailles World Cookbook Fair Award For Best Culinary History.  
 
Small soil mark and a light fore edge cover rise. Softcover book with 370 pages.