The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America is written by Andrew Smith and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199734968 (ISBN 10) and 9780199734962 (ISBN 13).

Home cooks and gourmets, chefs and restaurateurs, epicures, and simple food lovers of all stripes will delight in this smorgasbord of the history and culture of food and drink. Professor of Culinary History Andrew Smith and nearly 200 authors bring together in 770 entries the scholarship on wide-ranging topics from airline and funeral food to fad diets and fast food; drinks like lemonade, Kool-Aid, and Tang; foodstuffs like Jell-O, Twinkies, and Spam; and Dagwood, hoagie, and Sloppy Joe sandwiches.