The Taste of American Place: A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods

A marvelous collection of seminal articles on American foodways. This anthology will delight and enlighten food scholars and general readers alike. — Warren Belasco, University of Maryland Baltimore County and author of Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry

The Taste of American Place stews over these questions and simmers with provocative arguments, delightful information, accessible prose and an inherent sense of fun and adventure rarely found in academic works. More important, the Shortridges’ book will dramatically change the way you think and talk about food. — Mark Luce ― Kansas Alumni Magazine

This book is a marvelous read for students of geography and food analysis. ― The Cookbook Collectors Exchange, April/May 1998

The Taste of American Place facilitates the development of our understanding that although we must eat, we eat particular foods in certain ways for complex cultural reasons. — R. Mark Livengood, Leelanau Historical Museum, Michigan ― Western Folklore

At last! This volume truly does fill a serious gap. The Shortridges have a uniquely broad command of the literature, and their choices are admirable. — Wilbur Zelinsky, The Pennsylvania State University

The editors should be applauded for their contribution to the cultural geographer’s bookshelf. ― The Geographical Review