With an ambitious sweep over two hundred years, Freedman's lavishly illustrated history shows that there actually is an American cuisine: it is an exuberant and diverse, if not always coherent, cuisine that reflects the history of the nation itself. Combining historical rigor and culinary passion, he underscores three recurrent themes-- regionality, standardization, and variety-- that shape a completely novel history of the United States. Freedman shows that American cuisine would be nowhere without the constant influx of immigrants, who have popularized everything from tacos to sushi rolls. -- condensed from jacket
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