Flutterby™! : Foodie history

Charlene had picked up The United States of Arugula some time ago, and recently I picked it up. It's an interesting romp through the history of foodies in the U.S., from the New York Herald Tribune introducing pizza to its readers in 1939, up through... well... Niman-Schell has become Niman Ranch. What's especially interesting is comparing and contrasting this version of events to others, such as those put forth in The Omnivore's Dilemma or numerous local accounts.

I also find the coastal differences, at least as recounted in this book, fascinating: The west coasters doing interesting things with locally grown stuff, often as an off-shoot of hippy "back to the land" culture, the New Yorkers going gaga over whatever they could import from foreign lands.