{"product_id":"the-american-century-cookbook-9780517705766","title":"The American Century Cookbook","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the past ten years  Jean Anderson has been on a quest: to search out the most popular recipes of the 20th century and to chronicle 100 years of culinary change in America. The result is a rich and fascinating look at where weve been  at the recipes our mothers and grandmothers loved  and at how our own tastes have evolved.  The more than 500 cherished recipes in these pages are mainstays of American home cooking  the recipes that have remained favorites year after year. For the smallest sampling:  California dip . . . Buffalo chicken wings . . . vichyssoise . . . tuna-noodle casserole . . . Swiss steak . . . frosted meat loaf . . . tamale pie . . . corn dogs . . . lobster rolls . . . classic green bean bake . . . perfection salad . . . green goddess salad . . . frozen fruit salad . . . chiffon cake . . . brownies . . . chocolate chip cookies . . . chocolate decadence  Beyond this collection is Jeans exploration of the diversity of our nations cuisine and our adoption of such \"foreign\" dishes as pizza  gazpacho  lasagne  moussaka  and tarte tatin. Her painstakingly researched text includes extensive headnotes  thumbnail profiles of important people and products (from Fannie Farmer to James Beard and from electric refrigerators to the microwave)  and a timeline of major 20th-century food firsts.  In recording popular recipes that might have been lost  in setting them in richly detailed historical context  Jean Anderson has written her masterwork. The American Century Cookbook may well be the most important new cookbook of the decade; it is certainly the book America will love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280139018293,"sku":"ByrdShop_0517705761","price":30.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780517705766.jpg?v=1780622569","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-american-century-cookbook-9780517705766","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}