The World on a Plate is the story of how immigrant families have changed and influenced our food and created a uniquely American culinary pastiche. Joel Denker, a longtime food and travel writer and a scholar of American folklore, conducted fascinating interviews with a range of ethnic-food merchants in crafting a history of our colorful food makers—the grocers, vendors, manufacturers, importers, restaurateurs—and the products they have given us.

The World on a Plate: A Tour Through the History of America's Ethnic Cuisine (At Table)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Denker, Joel

Cooking Education & Reference

Bison Books

The story of a group of teachers and high school students who from 1968 to 1970 broke away from the public schools to start an alternative school of their own design. The introductory chapters focus on Denker and Bhaerman, explaining how they came to start the project. The middle two chapters center on events and issues during the two years the authors were with the school. The final two chapters analyze the politics of free schools and the teaching of adolescents. Denker and Bhaerman write in a lively, candid, and personal style, describing the events as they happenedeven if these events show the school in a bad light. The book is directed toward those who want to understand the free school movement of the sixties and early seventies and toward those who want to move beyond it. Students and teachers, Bhaerman says, ultimately must face what they had been avoiding while rebelling against traditional institutions: that the responsibility for their education lies with themselves and that what they took from the free school’ was directly proportional to what they put in.” An Introduction by Lawrence Dennis and an Afterword by Bhaerman and Denker put both this experiment and the free school movement in historical perspective.

No Particular Place to Go, Second Edition: The Making of a Free High School

Education & Teaching

Bhaerman, Steve

Schools & Teaching

Southern Illinois University Press

<p>During the Depression, the Colombosians, an Armenian family, began bottling and selling the yogurt they made on their small Massachusetts dairy farm. They labeled their bottles Colombo” because nobody could pronounce their name. The Colombo story, the journey of ethnic food from exotic product to everyday item, has become legendary. <i>The World on a Plate</i> tells the story of the Colombosians and other immigrant families who have changed and influenced our food and created a uniquely American culinary pastiche. Joel Denker, a longtime food and travel writer and scholar of American folklore, has conducted fascinating interviews with a range of ethnic-food merchants, crafting a history of our colorful food makers  the grocers, vendors, manufacturers, importers, restaurateurs  and the products they have given us.</p>

The World on a Plate: A Tour through the History of America's Ethnic Cuisine

Basic Books

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