The United States of Arugula by David Kamp

The United States of Arugula by David Kamp

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.

David Kamp is an author, journalist, humorist, and lyricist, as well as a founding member of the Sesame Street audience. He has featured cultural icons such as Johnny Cash, Sly Stone, Lucien Freud, Bruce Springsteen, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge for Vanity Fair. The national bestseller The United States of Arugula, a chronicle of America's foodways, is one of his works. Kiss My Aztec! was his debut musical as a songwriter. Spy, the famed satirical monthly, was where he started his career. He splits his time between New York City and rural Connecticut with his family.

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ISBN 13	9780767915809
ISBN 10	0767915801
Title	The United States of Arugula
Author	David Kamp
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Year published	2007-07-17
Number of pages	416
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