{"product_id":"setting-the-table-for-julia-david-strauss-9780801897733","title":"Setting the Table for Julia Child: Gourmet Dining in America, 1934-1961","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore Julia Child's warbling voice and towering figure burst into America's homes, a gourmet food movement was already sweeping the nation. \u003ci\u003eSetting the Table for Julia Child\u003c\/i\u003e considers how the tastes and techniques cultivated at dining clubs and in the pages of \u003ci\u003eGourmet\u003c\/i\u003e magazine helped prepare many affluent Americans for Child's lessons in French cooking. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Strauss argues that Americans' appetite for \u003ci\u003ehaute cuisine\u003c\/i\u003e had been growing ever since the repeal of Prohibition. Dazzled by visions of the good life presented in luxury lifestyle magazines and by the practices of the upper class, who adopted European taste and fashion, upper-middle-class Americans increasingly populated the gourmet movement. In the process, they came to appreciate the cuisine created by France's greatest chef, Auguste Escoffier. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrauss's impressive archival research illuminates themes--gender, class, consumerism, and national identity--that influenced the course of gourmet dining in America. He also points out how the work of painters and fine printers--reproduced here--called attention to the aesthetic of dining, a vision that heightened one's anticipation of a gratifying experience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of this burgeoning gourmet food movement Child found her niche. The movement may have introduced affluent Americans to the pleasure of French cuisine years before Julia Child, but it was Julia's lessons that expanded the audience for gourmet dining and turned lovers of French cuisine into cooks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Strauss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801897734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801897733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2011 pg. 72","brand":"David Strauss","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065131577599,"sku":"9780801897733","price":50.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c1356bad-2c94-4e7a-a12c-bc0aa7229026.jpg?v=1768673200","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/setting-the-table-for-julia-david-strauss-9780801897733","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}