Weaver, William Woys

Berkeley. 2010. 10/18/2010. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Hardcover. No Dustjacket as Issued. 9780520259775. 301 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Food Cooking. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This wonderful new book is not to be missed by collectors, gourmets, or anyone nostalgic for the dishes grandma used to make! Arthur H. Groten, President of the Ephemera Society of America It's impossible to stop turning the pages of this dazzling book. Few works in any genre have captured so precisely and memorably the interplay of food, design, technology, business, and popular culture. Laura Shapiro, author of Perfection Salad This extraordinary collection, a trove of enchanting designs, appealing colors, and forgotten motifs that stir the imagination, features an unprecedented assortment of ephemera, or paper collectibles, related to food. It includes images of postcards, match covers, menus, labels, posters, brochures, valentines, packaging, advertisements, and other materials from nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Internationally acclaimed food historian William Woys Weaver takes us on a lively tour through this dazzling collection in which each piece tells a new story about food and the past. Much more than a catalog, Culinary Ephemera follows this paper trail to broader themes in American social history, such as diet and health, alcoholic beverages, and Americans abroad. It is a collection that, as Weaver notes, will transport us into the vicarious worlds of dinners past, allowing us to brush elbows with the people of another time, another place, another condition. California Studies in Food and Culture, 30. 354 color illustrations. inventory #37763 ISBN: 9780520259775.