Full Description
This entertaining and informative encyclopedia examines American regional foods, using cuisine as an engaging lens through which readers can deepen their study of American geography in addition to their understanding of America's collective cultures.
Many of the foods we eat every day are unique to the regions of the United States in which we live. New Englanders enjoy coffee milk and whoopie pies, while Mid-Westerners indulge in deep dish pizza and Cincinnati chili. Some dishes popular in one region may even be unheard of in another region. This fascinating encyclopedia examines over 100 foods that are unique to the United States as well as dishes found only in specific American regions and individual states.
Written by an established food scholar, We Eat What? A Cultural Encyclopedia of Bizarre and Strange Foods in the United States covers unusual regional foods and dishes such as hoppin' Johns, hush puppies, shoofly pie, and turducken. Readers will get the inside scoop on each food's origins and history, details on how each food is prepared and eaten, and insights into why and how each food is celebrated in American culture. In addition, readers can follow the recipes in the book's recipe appendix to test out some of the dishes for themselves. Appropriate for lay readers as well as high school students and undergraduates, this work is engagingly written and can be used to learn more about United States geography.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Akutaq
Alligator
Anadama Bread
Armadillo
Barbacoa
Bean-Hole Beans
Bear
Bergers
Bialy
Blood
Boiled Peanuts
Bone Marrow
Booyah
Boudin Blanc and Noir
Brains
Bread-and-Butter Pickles
Brunswick Stew
Buffalo
Burgoo
Cactus
Cannabis
Cape May Salt Oysters
Catfish and Waffles
Chaudin
Cheese Ball
Cheese Curds
Cheesesteak
Cherry Pie
Chicken Feet
Chicken-Fried Steak
Chicory Coffee
Chislic
Chow-Chow
Cincinnati Chili
Coddies
Coffee Milk
Deep-Dish Pizza
Deep-Fried Fair Foods
Dorothy Lynch
Dundas Sheep Stew
Eel
Emu
Fastnacht
Fluffernutter
Foie Gras
Fried Green Tomatoes
Frito Pie
Frog Eye Salad
Fry Sauce
Frybread
Funnel Cake
Garbage Plate
Geoduck
Goat
Goetta
Gooey Butter Cake
Grits
Gumbo
Half-Smoke
Hoagie
Hoppin' John
Horseshoe Sandwich
Hot Dish
Huckleberry Ice Cream
Hush Puppies
Insects
Intestines
Jambalaya
Kentucky Hot Brown
King Cake
Kishke
Kombucha
Koolickles
Livermush
Loco Moco
Loose Meat Sandwich
Lutefisk
Maple
Muffuletta
Muskrat
Olive Loaf
Peeps
Pemmican
Pig's Ears
Pig's Snout and Tail
Pittsburgh Sandwich
Poi
Poke
Polish Boy Sandwich
Pork Roll
Potica
Poutine Râpée
Râpée Pie
Red-Eye Gravy
Roadkill
Root Beer and Birch Beer
Salt Pork
Scrapple
Shoofly Pie
Slinger
Snake
Son-of-a-B—tch Stew
Sonoran Hot Dog
Spam
Spiedies
Squirrel
Steamed Cheeseburgers
Succotash
Testicles
Turducken
Turtle
Walrus Flipper
Watergate Salad
Whoopie Pie
Selected Bibliography
About the Editor and Contributors
Index
