Amy B. Trubek

Home cooking is crucial to our lives, but today we no longer identify it as an obligatory everyday chore. By looking closely at the stories and practices of contemporary American home cooks&mdash;witnessing them in the kitchen and at the table&mdash;Amy B. Trubek reveals our episodic but also engaged relationship to making meals.<BR /> &#160;<BR /><I>Making Modern Meals</I>&#160;explores the state of American cooking over the past century and across all...

How and why do we think about food, taste it, and cook it? While much has been written about the concept of terroir as it relates to wine, in this vibrant, personal book, Amy Trubek, a pioneering voice in the new culinary revolution, expands the concept of terroir beyond wine and into cuisine and culture more broadly. Bringing together lively stories of people farming, cooking, and eating, she focuses on a series of examples ranging from shagbark hickory nuts in Wisconsin and maple syrup in...