Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine (Hardcover)

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EIGHT FLAVORS by Sarah Lohman is an absurdly interesting read about just the elements of some of our food. A “Food Historian”, Ms. Lohman tells of her growing interest in the journey of American tastes from Colonial days to the modern table. She does this not by looking at the dishes that grace o...

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Eight Flavors takes the reader from the search for black pepper in 1801 in Salem, MA to the birth of Sriracha in CA in 1980. The twists and turns of the eight flavors and their arrival, embrace and in one case rejection (MSG) in the US makes for an interesting read. Sarah Lohman has done her res...

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An interesting look at eight different flavors from a food history perspective. Each flavor has a chapter of its own and is arranged chronologically based on when it became ubiquitous in American kitchens and cuisine (with the last still being new and perhaps not quite as commonplace yet) : black...

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EIGHT FLAVORS by Sarah Lohman is an absurdly interesting read about just the elements of some of our food. A “Food Historian”, Ms. Lohman tells of her growing interest in the journey of American tastes from Colonial days to the modern table. She does this not by looking at the dishes that grace o...

from byrstn

Eight Flavors takes the reader from the search for black pepper in 1801 in Salem, MA to the birth of Sriracha in CA in 1980. The twists and turns of the eight flavors and their arrival, embrace and in one case rejection (MSG) in the US makes for an interesting read. Sarah Lohman has done her res...