An Archive of Taste : Race and Eating in the Early United States /
There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher but also a methodological challenge, in that there is no eating--or, at least, no food--preserved among the printed records of the early United States. Synthesizing a range of textual artifacts with...
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : no eating in the archive
- Taste : eating and aesthetics in the early United States
- Appetite : eating, embodiment, and the tasteful subject
- Satisfaction : aesthetics, speculation, and the theory of cookbooks
- Imagination : food, fiction, and the limits of taste
- Absence : slavery and silence in the archive of eating
- Epilogue : two portraits of taste.