| Description |
1 online resource (319 pages). |
| Series |
California Studies in Food and Culture ; v.30 |
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California studies in food and culture.
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Culinary Ephemera; CONETNTS; PREFACE: Seduced by Yum-Yum; INTRODUCTION: Why Culinary Ephemera?; 1 Almanacs and Calendars; 2 Americans Abroad; 3 Beer, Wine, and Other Drinking Ephemera; 4 Broadsides, Handbills, and Posters; 5 Brochures and Advertising Literature; 6 Business Cards; 7 Diet and Health; 8 Labels; 9 Match Covers; 10 Menus; 11 Postcards; 12 Recipe Books and Product Pamphlets; 13 Sheet Music; 14 Stoves, Canning, and Cooking Classes; 15 Trade Cards; 16 Valentines and Mottos; 17 Wrappers and Packaging; 18 Wild Cards; EPILOGUE: The Legacy of Yum-Yum; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY. |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
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. Packed wit. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-289) and index. |
| Subject |
Printed ephemera -- Food.
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Food habits -- History.
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Cooking, American -- History.
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Dinners and dining -- History.
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Fine Arts.
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Social sciences.
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ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- Paper Ephemera.
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DESIGN -- Clip Art.
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DESIGN -- Graphic Arts -- Branding & Logo Design.
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DESIGN -- Graphic Arts -- Commercial & Corporate.
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DESIGN -- Graphic Arts -- Illustration.
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HISTORY / Social History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weaver, William Woys. Culinary Ephemera : An Illustrated History. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520259775 |
| ISBN |
9780520947061 (electronic bk.) |
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0520947061 (electronic bk.) |
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