Introduction. Words About Food
The Best-Fed People in the World : American Cookbooks in the Nineteenth Century
An Appetite for Innovation : Cookbooks Before the Second World War
Gourmet Is a Boy : Midcentury Cookbooks and Food Magazines
Mastering the Art of American Cooking : Julia Child and American Cookbooks
Oppositional Appetites : Cookbooks and the Counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s
The Palate of Personality : Chefs and Cookbooks at the End of the Twentieth Century
Origin Stories : A New Discourse in Twenty-First-Century Cookbooks
Epilogue. What Should We Read for Dinner?
