The book also includes tomato recipes from the pre-Civil War period, covering everything from sauces, soups, and main dishes to desserts and sweets.

The second half of this book is a collection of more than a hundred historical and modern turkey recipes from across America and Europe."--Jacket.

In a lively account of the American tuna industry over the past century, celebrated food writer and scholar Andrew F. Smith relates how tuna went from being sold primarily as a fertilizer to becoming the most commonly consumed fish in the ...

This is a history of America's favorite condiment. By 1915 over 800 brands of ketchup were sold in the state of Connecticut alone, and Smith elucidates the cloudy origins of both the word ("ketchup" "catchup" "catsup") and the condiment.

In "Popped Culture" readers will learn the story behind popcorn and its history as the most American of all snack foods--when it arrived in the movie houses and how it all came to be.

Together, this food waste accounts for about eight percent of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions. So, if wasting food is such a patently bad idea, why do we discard so much? In Why Waste Food?