The wickedly entertaining, hunger-inducing, behind-the-scenes story of the revolution in American food that has made exotic ingredients, celebrity chefs, rarefied cooking tools, and destination restaurants familiar aspects of our everyday lives.
Amazingly enough, just twenty years ago eating sushi was a daring novelty and many Americans had never even heard of salsa. Today, we don't bat an eye at a construction worker dipping a croissant into robust specialty coffee, city dwellers buying just-picked farmstand produce, or suburbanites stocking up on artisanal cheeses and extra virgin oils at supermarkets. The United States of Arugula is a rollicking, revealing stew of culinary innovation, food politics, and kitchen confidences chronicling how gourmet eating in America went from obscure to pervasive—and became the cultural success story of our era.
- ISBN10 0767915798
- ISBN13 9780767915793
- Publish Date 8 November 2006
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 20 May 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 392
- Language English