{"id":2805,"date":"2014-01-03T08:07:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T13:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2014-01-03T08:53:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T13:53:06","slug":"do-americans-prefer-hand-held-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/do-americans-prefer-hand-held-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Americans prefer hand-held foods?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/dIorVQF7lKk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/food\/2013\/10\/why-do-we-eat-cereal-for-breakfast-and-other-questions-about-american-meals-answered\/\">Abigail Carroll opines<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Are there any dishes or foods that you would classify as typically, or even exclusively, &#8220;American?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number of iconic foods\u2014hot dogs and hamburgers, snack food\u2014are hand-held. They\u2019re novelties associated with entertainment. These are the kinds of food you eat at the ballpark, buy at a fair and eventually eat in your home. I think that there is a pattern there of iconic foods being quick and hand-held that speaks to the pace of American life, and also speaks to freedom. You\u2019re free from the injunctions of Victorian manners and having to eat with a fork and knife and hold them properly, sit at the table and sit up straight and have your napkin properly placed. These foods shirk all that. There\u2019s a sense of independence and a celebration of childhood in some of those foods, and we value that informality, the freedom and the fun that is associated with them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The interview is in general interesting on the history of American food. I have just ordered her new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0465025528\/marginalrevol-20\/\">Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here is <a href=\"http:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2014\/01\/many-farmers-eat-like-crap\/\">a short piece on why so many American farmers eat so poorly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2014\/01\/do-americans-prefer-hand-held-foods.html\"><em>Originally posted on Marginal Revolution<\/em> &#8211; click to see comments and suggestions.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abigail Carroll opines: Are there any dishes or foods that you would classify as typically, or even exclusively, &#8220;American?&#8221; A number of iconic foods\u2014hot dogs and hamburgers, snack food\u2014are hand-held. They\u2019re novelties associated with entertainment. These are the kinds of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/do-americans-prefer-hand-held-foods\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,168],"tags":[900,901,899,898],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american","category-books","tag-abigail-carroll","tag-diorvqf7lkk","tag-the-invention-of-the-american-meal","tag-three-squares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}