{"product_id":"the-taste-of-america-the-food-series","title":"The Taste of America (The Food Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis classic barbeque of our foodways is as valid and as savory today as when it first tickled ribs a generation ago. Based on the superlative authority of John L. Hess  onetime food critic of the New York Times  and Karen Hess  the pioneering historian of cookery  The Taste of America is both a history of American cooking and a history of the advice smiling celebrity cooks have asked Americans to swallow. The Taste of America provoked the cooking experts of the 1970s into spitting rage by pointing out in embarrassing detail that most of them lacked an essential ingredient: expertise. Now \"Kool-Aid like Mother used to make\" has become \"Kool-Aid like Grandmother used to make \" and a new generation has been weaned on synthetic food  pathetic snobbery  neurotic health advice  and reconstituted history. This much-needed new edition chars Julia Child (\"Shes not a cook  but she plays one on TV\")  chides food maven Ruth Reichl  and marvels at a convention of food technologists (whose program bore the slogan \"Eat your heart out  Mother Nature\"). Delectable reading for consumers  reformers  and scholars  this twenty-fifth anniversary reissue of The Taste of America will serve well into the new millennium.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986127220789,"sku":"ByrdShop_0252068750","price":27.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780252068751.jpg?v=1770888185","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-taste-of-america-the-food-series","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}