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The 25 People Who Changed Food in America

From Thomas Jefferson to James Beard, see the list of people who changed the way we eat.
05.16.08
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Food History News

The second biennial American culinary history symposium, held a few weeks ago in Ann Arbor, Michigan, left me kind of gasping to process all the things I saw and learned.
07.23.07
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Carving Out Community

More than mere holiday how-tos, these books reconnect us with the true purpose of the “holy days.”
November 2003
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A Fish Story

Captains of industry, technological innovation, and politics all had a hand, Anne Mendelson reveals, in making sushi as American as cornflakes.
October 2002
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Gourmet's First Decade

Contrary to later opinion, January of 1941 was a fine moment to launch a magazine that celebrated civilized and even luxurious dining.
September 2001
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60s Introductions

Race riots, antiwar protests, assassinations, the summer of love, bra burnings, the Beatles.
September 2001
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70s Introduction

The 1970s were intimately connected with getting, spending, and the self.
September 2001
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80s Introduction

Before American food lovers had finished absorbing the meaning of the 1970s, the noisy contradictions of the next decade were ringing in their ears.
September 2001
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90s Introduction

America limped toward the end of the century amid much pious rhetoric about swapping the expensive fripperies of the past 20 years for old-fashioned values.
September 2001
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50s Introduction

With the war behind it and the cheery face of Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Oval Office, the nation enjoyed a period of unprecedented prosperity.
September 2001
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