Fashionable food : seven decades of food fads / Sylvia Lovegren.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.

viii, 455 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

The twenties: Icebox cookery and other modern ideas. -- The thirties: Comforting food in America. -- An exotic interlude: Chinese food in America. -- The forties: Oh, what a hungry war! -- The fifties: Fabulous foods for the richest country on earth. -- The sixties: Nouveaux gourmets. -- An exotic interlude, II: Other oriental foods in America. -- The seventies: Eating our way to Nirvana. -- The eighties: For richer, for poorer: status food and comfort food. -- The nineties: Fin de siècle cooking in the fusion decade.

Includes bibliographical references and index.