Kansas City: A Food Biography

While some cities owe their existence to lumber or oil, turpentine or steel, Kansas City owes its...
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Author: Andrea L. Broomfield
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Language: English
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Kansas City: A Food Biography by Broomfield, Andrea L.

Kansas City: A Food Biography

$158.75

Kansas City: A Food Biography

$158.75
Author: Andrea L. Broomfield
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
While some cities owe their existence to lumber or oil, turpentine or steel, Kansas City owes its existence to food. From its earliest days, Kansas City was in the business of provisioning pioneers and traders headed west, and later with provisioning the nation with meat and wheat. Throughout its history, thousands of Kansas Citians have also made their living providing meals and hospitality to travelers passing through on their way elsewhere, be it by way of a steamboat, Conestoga wagon, train, automobile, or airplane. As Kansas City's adopted son, Fred Harvey sagely noted, "Travel follows good food routes," and Kansas City's identity as a food city is largely based on that fact. Kansas City: A Food Biography explores in fascinating detail how a frontier town on the edge of wilderness grew into a major metropolis, one famous for not only great cuisine but for a crossroads hospitality that continues to define it. Kansas City: A Food Biography also explores how politics, race, culture, gender, immigration, and art have forged the city's most iconic dishes, from chili and steak to fried chicken and barbecue. In lively detail, Andrea Broomfield brings the Kansas City food scene to life.

Author: Andrea L. Broomfield
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 02/16/2016
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781442232884


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/30/2015
Booklist 02/15/2016 pg. 19

About the Author
Andrea Broomfield is a culinary historian and an English professor at Johnson County Community College. She is the author of Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History (2007) and writes extensively about the Victorian era.

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