The Food Axis: Cooking, Eating, and the Architecture of American Houses

Food Axis

Food Axis

Name/Title

The Food Axis: Cooking, Eating, and the Architecture of American Houses

Entry/Object ID

2011.002.042

Description

A blending of architectural and social history with the necessity and passion food. Explores the development of the American house by viewing it through the food axis. Traces changes in food spaces through the years, noting a steady escalation in the number of food-related rooms, and considers the multiple circumstances that shed light on this evolution, including the role of gender in determining food-space design, the relation of food spaces to nature, and the telling ways in which people and food circulate through kitchens and dining rooms. Contents: The one-room house and the emergence of function-specific spaces, 1600-1750 -- Developments in space and technology, 1750-1850 -- National unity, regional diversity, 1850-1900 -- Efficient space, electric power, 1900-1940 -- Food spaces in the modern style, 1940-1975 -- All spaces are potential food spaces, 1975-2010. viii, 269 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2011.002.

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2011)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Architecture, Domestic--Social aspects--United States, Domestic space--United States, Architecture and society--United States, Food habits--United States

Book Details

Author

Cromley, Elizabeth C.

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Place Published

Location

Charlottesville, VA

Date Published

2010

Call No.

NA7205 .C76 2010

ISBN

9780813930077

LCCN

2010006503

Notes

Copy No.: 0

Location

Location

Building

Missroon Library

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Location

Building

Checked Out

Date

January 14, 2016

Notes

Authorized By: Karen Emmons Notes: Given to April for quick reference

Location

Building

Checked Out

Date

June 23, 2011

Notes

Notes: Valerie

General Notes

Note

Notes: By Elizabeth Collins Cromley. Includes bibliographical references and index. Copy provided to HCF per terms of Permission to Publish (plan of Caspar Christian Schutt House, which doesn't seem to have made it into the final book).

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

March 24, 2011

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

April 5, 2023