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The story behind the dish : classic American foods

"This book profiles 50 classic American foods ranging from junk and fast food to main dishes to desserts, and it reveals what made the dishes iconic in American pop culture"-- Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2012
Greenwood, Santa Barbara, 2012
History
1 online resource
9780313385100, 9781280119415, 9798216149491, 0313385106, 1280119411
784942338
Introduction
Apple pie
Bagels
Baked beans
Barbecue
Brownies
Buffalo wings
Cheesesteaks
Chili
Chocolate chip cookies
Clambake
Cobblers and bettys, slumps and grunts
Cobb salad
Cornbread
Corn flakes
Crab cakes and lobster rolls
Cracker jack
Fortune cookies
Fried chicken
Fried green tomatoes
Frozen custard, soft serve, and ice cream
Fry bread
Grits
Gumbo
Ham biscuits
Hamburgers
Hoagies and subs
Hot dogs
Hunter's stews : burgoo and Brunswick stew
Ice cream cones
Macaroni and cheese
Meat loaf
Pasties
Peanut butter and jelly
Pierogis
Pizza
Po'boys
Potato chips
Pumpkin pie
Rice and beans : from Hoppin' John to Moors and Christians
Scrapple
Shoofly pie
Strawberry shortcake
Sweet potato pie
Tacos
Tomato soup
Tuna noodle casserole
Turkey and stuffing
Waldorf salad
Includes index