Breakfast: A History
- ISBN-10
- 0759121656
- ISBN-13
- 9780759121652
- Series
- Breakfast
- Category
- Cooking
- Pages
- 238
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-07-11
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press
- Author
- Heather Arndt Anderson
Description
From corn flakes to pancakes, Breakfast: A History explores this “most important meal of the day” as a social and gastronomic phenomenon. It explains how and why the meal emerged, what is eaten commonly in this meal across the globe, why certain foods are considered indispensable, and how it has been depicted in art and media. Heather Arndt Anderson’s detail-rich, culturally revealing, and entertaining narrative thoroughly satisfies.
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- 2018-10-23
- 645 pages
- Ebook
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